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...tomato can in your vegetable garden." He quit making loans, spurned new checking accounts, wrote down $24,000 of Federal Reserve stock to 10?, and siphoned out of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank some $2,500,000-most of his bank's reserve-which he stuffed in deposit boxes. Increasingly bitter and violent about the New Deal, Banker Nichols declared last year that he would liquidate if Roosevelt was reelected...
Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...
...York Central. Pennsy now owns a 30% stock interest in the Lehigh Valley Railroad (which connects Buffalo with New York Harbor); Wabash owns another 21%; and the thought of a Pennsy-Wabash-Lehigh tie-up gave New York Central competitive fits. As a fit-cure, Pennsy agreed to deposit its Lehigh stock, along with the Wabash's, with independent voting trustees...
Samaritan. In Manhattan, an inventor displayed a doorbell requiring a nickel deposit, called it a "salesman repeller...
...first Plan was to build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...