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...successful in preventing the seizure or destruction of property by rioters, revolutionaries, or plain bandits and pirates. Supplementing this strong arm was the practice of extraterritoriality : the setting up of courts to administer British law so that entrepreneurs might be spared the more extreme abuses of the local legal apparatus. Law backed by force made the Pax Britannica the assurance of peace and fair play prerequisite to any long-term investment...
...picked up some of the blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World...
...Modern apparatus gymnastics was founded in the early 19th Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
...Apparatus events are the backbone of gymnastics. But far more exciting to galleries are the tumbling events. For the sheer fun of it, contestants perform the same stunts that once kept Japanese tumblers in big-time vaudeville. The tumbler who brought down the house last week was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, dimpled, curly-headed Bonnie Nebelong. Into her minute-and-a-half performance, she packed so many spine-tingling contortions and body twists that the judges had eyes for no one else...
...world. Here I.G.E. has bought a 35-acre tract, has put Brazilian architects to work designing the first factory building unit. It is to be 500 ft. long, will cost some $2,000,000, and will be completed in 1944. In it I.G.E. will make electric motors and assemble apparatus shipped from...