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Then, like a bean patch under a hot sun, opposition sprouted up & down the country. Feeling blindly for something to fasten to, it clutched and climbed on the solid Chicago organization of General Wood. With sincere isolationists, frightened business and political opportunists, many a political weed twined up: Roosevelt-haters, Bundists, Fascists, Coughlinites. America First chapters sprang up overnight, started their own membership drives. Nickels, dimes, dollars rolled in. From Chicago, it looked breathtaking. The America Firsters in Chicago did not yet realize that their movement had grown out of hand...
...crushed bean which turns into meal, the Commodity Year Book says: "More than 95% . . . is used for feeding livestock and poultry. . . . The feeding of livestock does not lend itself to dramatization and human interest stories, and therefore many people are led to believe that the minor uses of soybean oil meal are the major uses...
Lieut. Charles R. Yancey and Captain Lowell Bean put together a practical sight for a 75-mm. gun from two lengths of iron pipe (cost: $1), two 15? mirrors, 10? worth of adhesive tape. In casual tests during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...
When Frankensteen tried to address a workers' mass meeting, held in a bean field opposite the huge plant, a cell of hecklers milled around the speaker's stand, waved sketches of rats, jackasses and skunks at him, booed him off the platform. Taking to the air again, he suspended his own assistant, Communistic oldtime Labor Leader Wyndham Mortimer, three international organizers and all officers of the brash young local. Strike leaders decided to defy the President, keep the plant strike-shut. They were backed by local and State C.I.O. groups, by Harry Bridges' longshoremen, by their...
...collection includes, besides the Paracas polychrome jar in the shape of a human face, two early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure...