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...this little homily at a Republican dinner in his home State of Indiana. He was not; he had just done a little historical sleuthing. The quotation was 41 years old, spoken by none other than President William McKinley, high priest of high tariffs, day before he was shot at Buffalo...
...supply had poured westward in a vast caravan. Cannonading was still audible when the white-gloved soldier-policemen waved them along the Road. For days an almost solid line of vehicles packed the highway-perhaps 100,000 motor vehicles-from El Alamein to Tobruk. (Comparable distance: New York to Buffalo...
...Buffalo Ellefson is not the tallest college player in captivity. That distinction belongs to the Oklahoma Aggies' Bob Kurland, a 17-year-old who stands 7 ft. Co-champions or champions of the Missouri Valley Conference for six of the past seven years, the Oklahoma Aggies have been one of the most popular headliners at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...purpose of a new $2,100,000 wind tunnel now under construction at Pasadena by the California Institute of Technology. The tunnel was financed by four members of the Aircraft War Production Council: Consolidated, Douglas, Lockheed, North American. An identical air tunnel is being built by Curtiss-Wright at Buffalo...
Back to see Miss Conlin. She took one look, said, oh those go to the reading room. That didn't buffalo the boys. I got twenty cents, one said, would that help? Miss Conlin said she'd take care of it. The boys heard her mutter, as they turned away, it's a shame...Book's way overdue...