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Switching on his Z-tube, Alchemist Dunikowski began to repeat the experiment which led several rich Frenchmen to lend him money, next led him to the Sante Prison. With a loud bang the Z-tube blew up. The French judges promised Alchemist Dunikowski (severely burned under his right eye) another chance, as soon as he can make a new Z-tube...
...Gold ingots worth $320,000 plunked into Cherbourg harbor last week while Frenchmen were unloading $24,000,000 of gold from the U. S. from the British liner Berengaria. Soon French divers had recovered all but $24,000 worth of the lost gold. When they finally gave up the hunt with shrugs, French dredges began to dredge...
...London's famed "Gold Rush" (TIME, Feb. 22) continued, the English hastening to sell their hoarded gold sovereigns (worth 20 shillings) for 28 paper shillings. Tens of thousands of English gold coins were shipped every day to Paris, where frugal Frenchmen bought and stuffed them into socks, clocks and crocks...
Autographed portraits of many notable Frenchmen are now on display in the Treasure Room of the College Library. They are the gift of M. Champion, a publisher and bookseller of Paris, received following his visit to the United States about a year...
...Ecole de Guerre, from its high pulpit he taught the army's teachers his theories of military strategy. By books, by word of mouth he popularized the doctrine of Attack, until it became dogma to the French. "This theory, which really rested on the sentimental assumption that Frenchmen were braver than Germans, certainly simplified the role of the leader. For directly an enemy was sighted he had merely to give the order, 'Forward.' " Biographer Liddell Hart, more concerned with military strategy than patriotic ardors, puts the armies' battles, from the early battle of Morhange...