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After the news of Hess's landing, Berlin's next step was to say Hess had turned peace crank, had been led astray by soothsayers and astrologers. Promptly closed was every spook shop and fortune teller in Germany, not excepting a headline mind reading act in a Berlin music hall. In a special meeting, Hitler rallied the biggest shots of Nazi Germany, who obligingly "gave . . . an impressive demonstration of a determined will for victory." To assure the people that all was well, Nazi ward-heelers started a house-to-house canvass...
Towering, silver-haired, pink-faced Sir William Davison, 69, is a peppery, ultra-conservative M.P. who looks like an Esquire illustration of elderly, tweedy correctness. He is also a great believer in the power of thought. "I am no crank," says he, "but if people all over the world wished and willed the same thing at the same time there would be a great deal...
...crank-it-up days of the phonograph, Tenor Murray's brothy voice was one of the great sellers. With a nasal lilt he sang songs like If You Talk in Your Sleep Don't Mention My Name; It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch; Oh, You Beautiful Doll; I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy. Lately Victor gave 63-year-old Billy Murray a chance at a comeback, on Bluebird records. Last week his voice, no longer a broth but a rich Irish stew, was to be heard...
...several French kings and of Cardinal Richelieu, ladies kept trying to cut themselves in two. In the late 18th Century, a lady had to call in both a manservant and a maidservant for the lacing job, and if she was stout the two helpers had to use a wooden crank. Ribs of these unfortunates were often so compressed that they overlapped, bringing on lung trouble, hemorrhages, other internal disorders. Two-thirds of hospitals' emergency calls were for wasp-waisted women who had fainted in public places...
...bombers. Curtiss got around $57,000,000 for 1,500 new pursuits. Bell $18,000,000 for 200 Airacobras. To the three engine builders went some $52,000,000, most ($34,000,000) to Allison, already busy with expansion of its Indianapolis plant and making some parts (e. g., crank and camshafts) in G. M.'s Cadillac factory. Among plants in line for next orders: Martin, Lockheed (reported expecting $125,000,000 for pursuits and bombers), possibly Grumman and Consolidated, which makes flying boats and bombers. Also in line was many another plant, if not for its own product...