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...biggest navy the world has ever seen," in a very unseamanlike pose-holding on to keep his balance. He was aboard a battleship, which rolls slowly, and this one was in a harbor. I'm afraid our ubiquitous Secretary would need both hands and then some to stay erect on my little ship which "will pitch on wet grass...
...defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
...quietly intrepid priest (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) is no showy hero. He tries to conduct a religious service strictly on the sly; it is only when his death stares him in the face that he stands erect and prays aloud...
...Oldest admiral is bearded, erect Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, long since retired but now back at work as chairman of the Navy's Munitions Assignment Committee...
...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...