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...Uruguay the Soviet Legation has been distinctly overworked by the eagerness of Moscow to promote the World Revolution of the World Proletariat in all South American countries. Prime tinder for Communist firebrands are South America's traditionally disgruntled Indians, Negroes and half-breeds, but to try to funnel enough World Revolution for the whole continent through Uruguay was injudicious. Last week President Terra of Uruguay, after prolonged investigation, decided that altogether too many large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo were being cashed by individuals who, his Secret Service told him, were Communist revolutionaries...
Federal law forbids the trapping, sale or serving of wild duck.* On the inaccessible islands and marshes of Maryland's and Virginia's Eastern Shore dwell several hundred furtive, treacherous, half-wild natives who make a business of ducklegging. Their traps are funnel-mouthed wire contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said...
Rich uncles of U. S. education, the great Foundations pour out their millions of dollars each year through funnels pointed at trouble spots in the educational system. Pedagogs, ever eager to see what the Foundations consider trouble spots, last week thumbed through the annual report of the General Education Board, affiliate of the Rockefeller Foundation. That most generous of all the educational Foundations, they discovered, was pointing a big funnel at the senior high school, the junior college...
...machine set up in one of Houston's Rice Hotel's men's washrooms last week induces a customer to drop a 25? piece into a slot. The machine then presents a funnel in which the man may deposit a sample of urine. That done, he pulls a lever which automatically pours the fluid into two smaller, transparent containers. As the customer waits, the machine automatically squirts acid into one of the containers, a mixed solution into the second. If the urine in the first container shows white, the man has kidney trouble. If the other sample...
Colonel Stoopnagle, you will remember, took a military course at Harvard during the war. Before he had been there long he discovered the funnel leading from the Yard down to the river. "What I always wanted," he said, "was to have them turn that tunnel around so that the river end would be at the Yard and you wouldn't have so far to walk to get to the boathouses...