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Almost as soon as the North Atlantic Treaty, in its blue goatskin binding, was safely tucked away in the State Department archives, eight of the signers went one step further. They asked Secretary of State Dean Acheson if they could now expect arms from the U.S. No facts or figures were mentioned, though rough estimates put the first-year cost somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion. Acheson promised to see what he could...
Brought back to the ruins of Los Angeles, Poole sees two women drawing water in a goatskin from a shallow well in front of the Philharmonic Auditorium. Near by stand the communal ovens. They are stoked with books brought by small boys from the remains of the Public Library. "In goes The Phenomenology of Spirit, out comes the corn bread...
From manufacturers and retailers Hubbard, promising heavy plugs on the air, seined some $560,000 in merchandise. Whoever landed a tagged fish would get $560 in prizes: a camp cook stove, camp refrigerator, utility light, aluminum lawn mower, goatskin coat, outboard motor, suit of clothes, a woman's fur coat, two wool blankets and 52 cases of Pepsi-Cola. Another $6,000 in premiums, including a new car and trailer, would go with the first fish tag ending...
...would not be out of character if Newshawk and Lecturer Pierre van Paas sen girded up his loins with a goatskin, brushed wild honeybees from a matted beard, strode through the streets of Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins...
...mission-oak library tables were without a limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...