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...tiniest type on inside pages, loyal Dutch newsorgans printed last week a one-sentence despatch from Sweden...
Last week scores of delegates converged on Berlin for a World Power Conference, to discuss problems of distribution and utilization of Power manufactured from natural resources. Simultaneously the French Academy of Sciences was discussing in Paris a despatch from one of its members reporting progress on his project to develop Power from an inexhaustible natural resource not yet tapped...
Rich and patient, Inventor Claude was not discouraged a few months ago when heavy seas crumpled the pipe he was sinking to fetch his cold water to the surface. He set to lowering another pipe. His last week's despatch to his colleagues said that this pipe was now laid...
...despatch was allowed to pass in which she was quoted as saying: "I go to Death or Victory. ... I feel as Joan of Arc must have felt, under divine inspiration! ... I shall cut their barbed wire fence with pliers and seize the salt with my own hands. . . . Neither jail nor Death hold any terrors...
...despatch from Amsterdam described the Minister of Public Works as "enthusiastic" about the slot-doorbell, quoted His Excellency as determined to provide postmen with token coins which will enable them to play cheaply the game of making doors go "Bong...