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...into effect by proclamation. In Santiago, Chile, El Impartial pointed out that the U. S., Britain and France were by no means the only countries guilty of keeping the slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic rifles. How Paraguay paid for all this remained a mystery. Bolivia has financed the war without recourse to extreme taxation, entirely on tin, her greatest export...
Paraguay Machine guns & cannon $ 91,900 Ammunition including fireworks 4,655 Parachutes & parts 2,100 Revolvers 63 Trucks & busses...
...Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled to the surface, it is inflated with air pumps, towed to the factory ship...
...must have been just this that Stanford had in mind when they decided to send a championship seven to the meet. There was John Lyman, burly shotputter, who can toss the cannon ball some 54 feet; there was Gordon Dunn in the discus; A1 Blackman in the 400; jack Mottram in the Javelin; and a bunch of others that the boys from the East should keep their eagle eyes on every minute of the time. Because, after all, with Southern Cal out of the running Stanford is probably the most logical contender for the title in spite of their amputated...
Awarded. To President James Bryant Conant of Harvard: the American Institute of Chemists Medal. To Samuel Seabury, Mrs. August Belmont. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard Medical School): gold medals of the National Institute of Social Sciences. To Alden Hopkins of Rhode Island State College and Harvard School of Landscape Architecture : the Prix de Rome in landscape architecture...