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...stones, old guns and butterflies. Castiglione was remembered for the cannon, and for his habit of punishing his walking stick, when it fell to the ground, by standing it for three days in a corner of the room. San Cesarians said that the cannon was originally theirs, and they lent it for one day in 1880 to the Spilambertians, who would not give it back...
...What lent substance to the story was that it had been the Dominican charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince himself who disclosed the plot to the Haitians. His motive: the discovery that he and his family were to have been beaten up to provide a good excuse for Dominican intervention. Having spilled the beans, he fled to the U.S., where, after a few consultations with his countrymen, he was promoted-and denied the whole story...
...farther away from pioneer conditions, Dr. Reeves has lent the hospital an electrocardiograph. Last week the partners installed a $5,000, hospital-sized X-ray machine to replace a portable model they had been using. Come spring, they will start building an office of their own to replace their present rented quarters (which replaced a wooden shack where Dr. Reeves had to practice at first). It will be big enough to serve as an outpatient clinic. In it will be still more modern equipment, notably diathermy and basal metabolism machines. ("With those," says Dr. Reeves, "we'll have...
...transport survey for the Colombian government won him a warm note of praise from the Minister of Public Works. After that the U.S. Commerce Department hired Jim at $10,000 a year. He helped on the planning for ECA, lectured before the Armed Forces Industrial College, lent expert advice to the Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. He did so well that President Truman sent him a personal letter of commendation...
...when a method of controlling the pitch content in pine pulp was discovered, was he convinced that it could be done. Then he had to spend five years convincing other Texans. After Kurth raised $2,689,684, including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another $2,500,000 from RFC, he built his own pulp mill...