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...Annabelle by a new, still-secret route. It was piloted by Count Carl-Gustaf von Rosen, 59, a legendary air adventurer who began his long career by landing an air ambulance behind Italian lines in Ethiopia in 1935. The sum total of relief so far delivered to the Biafrans, however???some 900 tons?is not even enough to meet a week's needs...
...barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however???to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...
...Abroad, however???at Washington, London, Madrid?a notable furore was created, and the representatives of the U. S., Britain and Spain in Mexico City were instructed to employ harsh language at the Mexican Foreign Office...
Several methods of avoiding high prices were suggested: 1) Planting rubber in the Philippines and elsewhere outside British control (this will not bring relief for several years, however???not until the rubber trees grow to bearing age.) 2) Co-operative buying, perhaps legally enforced, by all U. S. rubber manufacturers. 3) Using rubber as economically as possible, and carefully reclaiming all old rubber. 4) Tapping wild rubber trees still growing in many places...
...they said, is "an animal, roasted whole"; "phew,"?"an expression of disgust or surprise," they made clear; "eschew," which means to "avoid" or "shun," the editors of the Home News told the public so that there would be no mistake about it. Certain readers of the Home News, however???those whom Robert Browning could have complimentedtore up their copies of the sheet and stamped upon the fragments. "Our intelligence has been insulted!" they cried?"that is, treated with contempt, an affront...
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