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...Mussolini. The "message" was inconsequential, but the paper on which it was written was significant. At the top is printed the bold letterhead: IL CAPO DEL GOVERNO (Head of the Government). Along the left margin is printed: "CARTA ITALIAN A DI PASTA E CELLULOSA DI PAGLIA PRODOTTA ESCLUS-IVAMENTE CON MATERIE PRIME NAZIONALI." ("Italian paper of paste and cellulose of straw, produced exclusively with national raw materials...
...palm leaves supported on sticks about 16 feet apart. His court with pirates and shipwrecked negroes, the Mosquito nation emerged a composite people to be reckoned with by European fury and a half of racial intermixture or gorgets of gold to relieve their paint-streaked. But after a con-consisted of two elderly wives, a son, and three daughters. Yet the astonishing fact remained that this barbarian wielded great power on the Caribbean...
When Dr. Mather and his former student arrived at the scene, they found in large wooden enclosure had been con- structed, electric search lights set up; and concession stands equipped, while barkers with glaring signs were urging the crowds to view the unknown pre-historic monster in his last resting place for 25 cents per head. The farm looked as if an oil boom had struck...
...Federal Government. Secret Service agents returned to wander around Cicero's grimy nooks. Suddenly, last week, a Federal grand jury indicted "Scarface Al" Caponi and his brother Ralph; Joseph Z. Klenha, president of the town of Cicero; Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police, and 75 others, for con-spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Federal agents say they have evidence that the gangsters profited $15,000,000 by their liquor business in three years...
...Nevertheless, I was always con scious and I saw the queer, deep, dark blue of a cloudless and mistless sky; a far deeper blue than that seen from the earth's sur face. . . . I could feel the tightening of the contracting metal parts of the plane." (Contraction was due to intense cold). When his barograph registered 12,800 metres, Pilot Callizo descended, hovering at 500 metres, to collect his shocked faculties. After inspection of his instruments, officials credited him with having flown higher than any man- 12,422 metres (40,820 ft., nearly 8 mi., two-fifths...