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After the Doolittle bombing of Tokyo, the Japs decided that they had to retaliate somehow. They spent years, and $18,000,000, researching and manufacturing long-range gas bags, mostly of mulberry-bark paper. Some 9.000 were launched. Only 283 are known to have landed in the Eastern Pacific or North America. No military damage was done. A few grass fires were started and six people were killed-when an Oregon child tampered with an unexploded bomb...
...restore to him his fireside social life, nocturnal rest, capacity to concentrate on his work, and general peace of mind-all gone now, said he. The thief of his serenity, deposed the editor-critic-raconteur-philologist's petition, was a dog next door who passed his life barking-a "large, powerful male dog of breed or breeds unknown to your orator." The barking, pursued Mencken, was "abnormally and extraordinarily loud, harsh, penetrating, violent, unpleasant, and distracting." He prayed that the court would compel his neighbor to take dog and bark away. The court gave Dog Owner Charles Fortenbaugh...
While Michelangelo was furiously improving the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II, a handful of Papuans were equally hard at work in a New Guinea clubhouse. They fashioned masks 10 feet high out of bark. Each mask represented a mythological spirit, but no Renaissance classicist could have recognized the 100 weird, bearded birds and sharp toothed half-humans who emerged, after ten years of labor, from the clubhouse. And Europeans, who like to think of art as immortal, would have been amazed to see the masks burned (after a month of ceremonial dances) amid the acclamations...
...through calisthenics which lasted three hours in the morning, three and a half in the afternoon; men found with cigarets, forced to eat them; men asking to go to the latrine, dosed with castor oil. Another allegation: Negroes in the mess hall were forced to crawl and bark like dogs before they were...
...three months, SPBoss W. Stuart Symington has barked threats of government-subsidized competition at the Aluminum Co. of America. Last week, his bite proved milder than his bark. He approved a five-year lease to Reynolds Metals Co., Alcoa's only competitor, of the government-owned Hurricane Creek and Jones Mill plants in Arkansas. But there were no provisions for any subsidy in the lease, the first negotiated by RFC for any government-owned aluminum plants...