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...oldfashioned, unite in hating all that Westernization has brought Japan except the guns. They hate democracy, free capitalism, politics, graft, social unrest. Without claiming to know much about economics, they feel that Japan could have both low taxes for farmers and a huge defense budget. Let the Emperor bleed the capitalists! Last week with conspiratorial secrecy, the officers rushed through the Government presses 160,000 copies of a pamphlet entitled The Basic Principles of National Defense and Proposals for Strengthening It. Conceivable in no country save Japan, it was simply an attack on Japan's present form of Government...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
Daisy-&-Violet Hilton are a pygopagus, a double-monster joined at the buttocks. They say that the bones of their lower spines and hips are fused and that the same blood courses through both bodies. Invoking shyness, they refuse medical or x-ray examination. Presumably if Violet were to bleed to death, Daisy would also be fatally drained of blood. But, strangely, three weeks ago Violet had a bad cold and fever. Yet Daisy ran no fever...
Coral or kernels of red corn to stop nose bleed or other hemorrhages...
...operators for mail contracts. The crowd broke into a long whistle of surprise when bids of 17½? and 19? per airplane mile were read off for routes on which "General" Farley had specified a maximum of 45?. The companies, it seemed, were ready to cut their throats and bleed to financial death rather than die of slow starvation without any airmail contracts...