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...next few months Fleet Street newspapers "sold" some 5,000,000 volumes of Dickens, in a mad scramble for new readers. Dickens was only a starter. Washing machines came next. Then sets" of china, electric irons, cricket bats & balls, cameras. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, sets of "modern classics." Fountain pens, fancy pencils, stockings, underwear, wrist watches, pillow cases, pyjamas. Lord Beaverbrook outfitted his canvassers with samples of boots, coats, pants and shoes, sent them west to show Welsh miners how they might clothe a whole family by reading the Express for eight weeks...
...railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells of Pennsylvania combined. It remade the oil business. Unable to cope with a financial find of such magnitude...
George at Southampton, he led his retinue through Cherbourg's terminal with its American bar and soda water fountain, along the massive pier. He peered amiably at the ribbons of breakwaters. Then he reviewed a naval demonstration, ate a meal, zipped back to Paris...
...gave up his job with the Parker Fountain Pen Co. in Janesville, Wis. to go to Washington as a clerk in the Treasury Department. In his spare time he learned shorthand, Spanish, the law. In 1916 he emerged from bureaucratic anonymity as assistant secretary of the Fine Arts Commission. A year later he took on a position as first secretary of the Public Building Commission...
...Square. Some time later a Fascist militia officer wandered idly about the swarthy man standing near the great obelisk with his fingers in his ears. Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into one of the plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little damage was done to St. Peter's, but four Holy Year Pilgrims were slightly injured by the bomb. In his private library, 150 yards away, Pope Pius peered over his gold-rimmed spectacles, remarked that the noonday gun seemed a little late, went...