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Gangsters, holocausts, thunder-gusts and earthquakes were all provided against by the architects of San Francisco's new U. S. Mint. They never thought of kids. One evening last week Paul Francis and William Gallagher, each 15, walked past the massive four-story money fortress and remembered having read it was "impregnable...
...monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided the party with dead martyrs, landed Herr Hitler in jail. His incarceration at Landsberg Fortress gave him time to write the first volume of Mein Kampf, now a "must" on every German bookshelf...
Dumped one night last week into a big hole inside bleak Jilava Fortress, near Bucharest, were the bullet-ridden bodies of 14 leaders of the Iron Guard, Rumania's suppressed, German-financed party. No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to oust the Government and set up a Nazi State in Rumania...
...forbidding-looking Gothic prison facade to match the present Van-Sheff unit," says the News."... Would that it were possible for Yale to build her latest... in accordance with functional requirements, instead of again indulging in her quaint whims such as that of a gymnasium designed as a medieval fortress or a library as a cathedral...
...successive nights and mornings, the Air Corps' Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad sent Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") and Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked...