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...easy to get a cable under the bow, Commander Momsen explained, because it was tilted upward, off the bed of the ocean. The stern, however, was sunk deep in solid blue clay...
...manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem as if they might revolve for all eternity. And out of this maelstrom chimneys point upward like lank, black limbs. Breughel, in his work, brings out the essential sameness of man and his natural environment; Fiene shows that man is degenerating into an unimportant phase of a new and artificial environment...
...Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside fighting positions through a maze of upward warrens. No sooner had the Americans seized one mouth of the tunnel than the Germans poured out of their surface positions and riddled them from the rear. The Americans finally cleared the area but not before the 107th Infantry had lost 337 men killed and 658 wounded, the heaviest loss...
...carbon apparatus is a tall glass cylinder with glass spirals inside. Heavy carbon can be separated from light carbon because it dissolves in hydrogen cyanide and sodium cyanide at slightly different rates. When sodium cyanide in water solution runs down the spiral and hydrogen cyanide as a gas flows upward, heavy carbon collects at the top of the apparatus. There were no leaks and the canaries warbled serenely...
Stocks flittered like feathers in the whirlwind. Sugar, metals, oils, chemicals, aircrafts caught the swiftest of the upward currents. In the vortex, some food stocks rose, some fell. Few behaved so wildly as Guantanamo Sugar, long unnoticed at ⅞, up to 6 (600%) on Tuesday, backdown to 3½ at week's end. Among Dow-Jones' 30 industrials could be found samples of virtually every form of windblown behavior...