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...another 380 German firms. As armorer for the Nazis, I.G. made all of Germany's synthetic rubber and lubricating oil; 95% of its poison gases (Farben tested them on concentration camp inmates); 90% of the nickel; 88% of the magnesium, most of the gasoline and explosives for the buzz-bombs...
...Your Letters section is filled these days with the buzz of servicemen condemning the brutally wanton way in which many G.I.s are conducting themselves abroad. People write to you and seriously nominate fellows like Senator Bilbo and Colonel McCormick as Man of the Year. And so it goes...
...glass transom was covered with cardboard. Outside the grey-enameled door stood three husky sergeants at arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...
...When he was 13 Bummy got a better job, as bartender in a speakeasy. A little later he became a prize fighter at Ridgewood Grove, a dingy club behind the Myrtle Avenue car barns. As in his earlier endeavors, he was an instant success. He would battle a buzz saw. Also, he was one of the dirtiest fighters the ring ever produced, and thousands came to see what he would try next...
Well aware that they are launching a biographical buzz bomb, which may have serious repercussions in the autograph market, Author Smith & Others make haste to deny that their book is an attack on Shelley. They simply wish to show that "romantic, Pagan Shelley," whom they refer to as "the pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift," never degenerated into respectability; that he was "a whirlwind of devastation, upsetting the life of nearly everyone with whom he came into contact and leaving an appalling trail of acrimonious litigation, financial chaos, childbirth and death, double suicide and disaster behind...