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Kappa books are manufactured by throwing paper, ink and a mysterious grey powder into the funnel-shaped mouths of giant machines. In less than five minutes' time the machines can produce a flood of different volumes-seven million each year. The powder is "just rubbish-brains of asses dried and ground...
...Watery Grave. The French Line resumed luxury service on the North Atlantic with the 18,435-ton liner De Grasse, which entered New York harbor on her first postwar trip. Her two funnels replaced by a single squat funnel, the veteran De Grasse looked none the worse for her attempted scuttling by the Germans in St. Nazaire harbor...
...British Navy was not embarrassed. Two sleek destroyers closed in on the refugee ship. The Exodus' captain, Bernard Marks of Cincinnati, refused to take aboard a landing party and headed his ship out to sea again. The refugees-half of them women & children-screamed their defiance. About the funnel they draped a banner: "England, this is your enemy...
...Isles for the same reason that French Canada always prefers immigrants from Latin countries: "It is Ontario's desire that in the increase of [Canadian] population there should be as high a proportion as possible of British stock." An office has already been set up in Toronto to funnel immigrants to waiting jobs. The big problem, George Drew admits, is shipping. He was in London to do something about...
Hail & Prayers. The funnel moved on, gathering about it an awesome shroud of torrential rain and hail. In Higgins, 15 miles away, only three brick buildings survived undamaged. Flames licked the wreckage. Of the town's 1,250 inhabitants, 45 were dead...