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...snow gauge catches snow in a funnel, melts it in a pan below, stores and measures the residue. If there is a "moon faced" young man about the house who .discourses upon art, life, love, employs trite French phrases, "inevitably the day will come (even if you he ve to wait for it for many years) when h^ will sigh and murmur...
Those who have had business abroad (Herbert Lehman's OFRR, Nelson Rockefeller's OCIAA, Elmer Davis' OWI) have slowly, painfully learned that all foreign business must funnel through the State Department. The hard-to-handle exception was Henry Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare. When BEW was scrapped by Executive Order, Secretary Hull promptly stepped up and claimed the scrap pile...
...beer, Tom took a swig, burned his esophagus so badly that the doctors could not keep it open as it healed. So for 47 years Tom has fed himself through an opening surgeons made in his abdominal wall. He chews his food, then spits it into a funnel attached to a rubber tube which runs through the opening to his stomach. A sensitive, self-respecting little man, with a peppery Irish temper, Tom has kept "the way I feed" a secret from all but his closest friends...
...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
Three weeks earlier, Lanphier's squadron had whipped into Poporang Island with six planes, wrecked twelve float-Zeros, disabled a destroyer in an attack so fierce and low that Barber left three feet of his wing tip in the destroyer's funnel...