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"I am unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written...
Every telephone in Tokyo was dead, every street car still, and amid the snow Japanese soldiers with their greatcoats buttoned over the divisional numbers on their collars looked all alike. Scared as rabbits, Japanese civilians learned by grapevine rumor that, if a coat blew open revealing its wearer to be...
Your cover (Feb. 17, Hitler's Leni Riefenstahl) beat the cables easily in vividness of depiction, but you made it extremely difficult for persons in the Puritan highlands to keep their minds on their work.
Because there are no tracks which act ordinarily as a ground wire, two overhead cables are needed with careful insulation between them to avoid short circuit.
A test of skill is provided, too, in navigating the bus around the loop. At the very start, a narrow door presents no mean obstacle, and is immediately followed by a difficult curve which exacts close concentration to keep the trolleys on their cables. Then comes the straightaway in which...