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When the last boatload of valiant fugitives pushed off from the beach at Dunkirk, they left, among the prone bodies, the carcasses of horses, the discarded rifles and smashed cannons, a historical deposit undistinguishable from the sands that the tide washed in & out. It was the remains of the faded Victorian Age, whose shibboleths of family security, personal freedom, humanity, honor, greatness of purpose, faith, liberalism and the intangible called decency had so long stood between civilized society and those forces within itself which are always at war with it. At one stride, a new age, The Age of Violence...
...race horses run as claimers; in all claiming races owners risk having their nags bought out from under them, whether they want to sell or not. All Lipiec (or any other trainer) has to do before a race is to file a claim for a particular horse and deposit the money. After the race, he takes the horse...
Commercial uses are limited and prosaic-Welsbach gaslight mantles, carbon terminals for projectors, luminous watch dials. Since commercial production has never been reported in Canada, two possibilities are suggested: 1) the materials for Chalk River will be imported; or 2) under the wartime security blackout, a workable deposit of thorium has been discovered in Canada...
...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...
...third transfusion was to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. As its head, the President named another onetime Missourian-Maple T. Harl, 52, now a Denver banker. Both he and Martin succeed Leo T. Crowley, who was head of both institutions until he resigned to return to private business...