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...Work Like Hell!" That the British people wholeheartedly approved of the Act and its requirements was full proof that for months they have been far ahead of their Government in desiring an all-out prosecution of the war. From the upper classes, who had long foreseen that the war would make the most drastic demands on Property, came no complaint. From the stoic middle classes, whose small holdings were likewise doomed, came none either. Labor's spokesmen were downright enthusiastic. For labor had nothing to give but its toil, for which it would be paid. Intellectual labor pointed...
...axiomatic that previous records count for practically nothing in the H-Y classic, and almost as axiomatic that upsets prove the rule. Impartial, outside speculations on this game have almost always been on a 50-50 basis because it is realized that when two teams go all-out at a high emotional tension, anything can happen...
...touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...moon-cocked their eyebrows, scratched their polls. The cause of their wonderment was a ship that moved through the water at an astounding rate. It had no engine, this ship; it was innocent of masts, sails, rigging; its crew was so small as to be negligible; but-greatest marvel of all-out of its superstructure reared two incredible cylinders, 65 ft. high, which twirled and twirled. Harnessed, by some obstruse mechanical slight, to the wind of their twirling, the ship moved through water. It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner. Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders...