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...reported that rifle fodder was being rounded up in Soviet districts along the Polish frontier, remote from either Moscow or Leningrad, the scene of the crime. Twelve were arrested in White Russia, 37 in the Ukraine far to the south. As an afterthought the Government, having let in the clutch of its machine of systematic Terror, described the nondescript persons shot last week as "Terrorists...
...tops and egg bottoms and overall cooling two or three times every 24 hours. Hatchings in his imitative incubator averaged 78% as against 55% obtained on the average in Russia in uniform-temperature incubators. Last week it was reported that Zoologist Meshcheryakov had hat bed every one of a clutch of ostrich eggs, a feat rarely accomplished even by a mother ostrich...
...Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will tell. Approximately 9 x 9 ft., War depicts a jungle-like ravine choked with abandoned corpses and military refuse. Grass grows from skulls that have spilled their brains; hands without bodies clutch vainly after life; a cadaver on the skeleton of a twisted barricade rots in mid air. The whole gives the murky impression of a submarinescape...
...push rod on the dash) but once in gear a few steel weights spinning like a governor on a drum in the rear of the transmission do the rest. When a speed of about 18 m.p.h. is attained, centrifugal force throws out the weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically in low. As the low is a fast low, Reo has provided a manual shift which changes the ratio...
...will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...