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...Clamp-jawed George Sparks Milnor, head of U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp., sat at his desk in Chicago last week showing obvious signs of fatigue. His face was taut and tired, but his heavy-lidded eyes sparkled with satisfaction. For more than a fortnight his shoulders alone, Atlas-like, had steadfastly supported the price of wheat...
...across Manchuria's barren border, fired occasional shots, made desultory raids. Last week tension snapped. Soviet strategists, choosing a moment when civil war wracked half of China, sent four modern divisions, complete with tanks. over the line. Two divisions moved west from Vladivostok, two east from Chita to clamp Manchuria in a Soviet vise...
...pair of little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel, were not to make the car fly, but to prevent it from flying. The car would go so fast he said that it needed air pressure to clamp it to earth...
...whisper to those readers who will incline their ears, to wit; we have it on very high authority that at least one of the publications is "slipping; slipping; slipping, right into the garbage pail." Who knows but both may slip in? In which case, perhaps some one will clamp...
...localities where it has been applied, "free trade in ideas" has usually resulted in the separation of the good from the bad, and "the power of though to get itself accepted in the competition of the market" has been proved. Governments have found that when attempt is made to clamp down the lid on things they dislike the result has been that the lid has not only been forced open but entirely blown...