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...United States. The proposed bill intends that the Misses Dionne shall not be commercialized by the money grubbing vaudeville entrepreneurs of New York and Chicago. It is a direct national slap at the great acquisitive qualities which have maintained the Yankee at the top of the financial heap, and an insult to that maternal instinct which flames inherent in the breasts of all true Americans...
...Japanese shipping agent in Manhattan buys a cargo of rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through the Panama Canal, manages to reach Nagasaki 11,000 mi. away. There the cargo is dumped into smelters. The ship proceeds to Osaka where, in the world's largest ship-breaking yard, acetylene torches reduce its hull to hunks of scrap. The crew works back to New York for another...
...shortage. Scrap is abundant, they say. There are about 750,000,000 tons of steel in use in the U. S., part of which must go into scrap every year as new steel is forged. Theoretically, the entire 1928 production of automobiles is ready for the junk heap this year. And compared with annual domestic scrap consumption of 17,000,000 tons, last year's exports of 1,835,000 tons was only a piffling 10%. Because scrap is an international commodity, it tends to flow to countries whose steel industries are operating at capacity. Japan's steel...
...nothing left. The present is a thing dead--an automatic force that drags me along. The future--it doesn't exist. How can it? You were the future. All my high ambitions, our golden plans together, were twined around you. You cut the bonds--they crumpled into a purposeless heap...
...about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...