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Quid Pro Quo. Only four tariff concessions did the U. S. make to Cuba: 1) a reduction from 1½ to 9? a lb. on raw sugar; 2) a reduction from $4 to $2.50 a gal on Cuban rum; 3) reductions upwards of 50% on Cuban cigars and tobaccos; 4) reductions averaging about 50% on grape- fruit, lima beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers and squash...
...father of her child. Last week Frank Dorbandt was in more trouble. Flying a sick boy from Point Barrow to Anchorage, Alaska, he landed at St. Johns, picked up some men who had been marooned there three weeks. When he reached Anchorage, carrying eleven passengers, a dog and 200 gal. of gasoline, a Department of Commerce inspector claimed his plane was overloaded by 2,000 lb., revoked his license, ordered his plane grounded. Incensed, Dorbandt climbed back into the plane, shouted: "You will never see me again!" Taking off with 2½-hr. fuel supply, he headed east into...
...dried air, chilled to 35°, down the shaft every minute. It is expected that temperature will be reduced 8 to 12° in the main shaft, 5 to 7° in the branch workings, and the dry air will soak up 1,500 gal. of water every hour. Initial cost...
...sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid. Nitric acid plus sulphuric acid plus glycerin makes nitroglycerin...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...