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...rock miners came down out of Colorado's Rocky Mountains to Denver to try the latest treatment for the old complaint. At the University of Colorado's School of Medicine they bellied up to a six-foot-high box fitted with nozzles at mouth level. Putting a clamp on their noses and the nozzle in their mouths, they breathed in & out through the tubes. Newcomers started at five minutes every day; veterans stood at the box from ten up to 20 minutes...
Mark Twain paid his fee to this kind of greatness by pouring most of his fortune into a patent clamp to keep babies from rolling out of bed, a checkerboard game for teaching world history (he invented these himself), a patent steam generator, a steam pulley, a new method of marine telegraphy, a device for deodorizing gas-logs, copper type faces, a typesetter. When Author Twain entered old age, some half a million dollars in the red, he attributed his losses to the fact that the world was overrun with "idiots," "moral icebergs," "thieves,'' "swindlers" and "pirates." Outstanding...
Meanwhile the U.S. would do its best to clamp down on the black markets, straighten the currency muddle, extend credit and speed the shipment of goods to the islands. Last week the Administration also made up its mind on trade policy; it would ask Congress to give the Philip pines free trade with the U.S. for eight years and tariffs which would rise gently for 25 years after that...
...clamp closed on a dozen districts. Then suddenly the Russians seemed to be everywhere at once on the south. Cavalrymen from Siberia, Cossacks from the Don raced west behind the armored thrusts, galloped into woods to slash out German gunners-and the Germans touched off fuel to set the woods ablaze. Soon shells fell on Tempelhof airdrome. Berlin was three-quarters encircled...
Dusty History. By this week it appeared that Berlin's envelopment and destruction would have to be total. Fear-crazed men fought beside the fanatics as the teeth of the clamp bit deeper by the hour. Now the Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...