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...Britain should certainly cease giving more credits to the Soviet Union!" cried choleric Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, advocate of a special tax exclusively on Soviet imports. "Russia has the greatest army in the world and the greatest factories for the production of lethal gas! If we have any money to spend, let us spend it at home. Or if we have enough at home let us spend it on the Dominions!" This speech, though approved in principle by a Congress resolution, failed to win support for the specific, anti-Soviet...
...Waynesburg, Pa., State Senator C. W. Parkinson's son Thomas, trying to drive his father's automobile out of the garage, fainted from lethal carbon monoxide gas. His head fell forward onto the pushbutton in the centre of the steering wheel, blew the horn until neighbors came...
...catnip and pork. Teddy stayed put. The policemen chopped through a 4-in. wall, found it was the wrong wall. They chopped another hole, a policeman reached for Teddy, Teddy reached the policeman first, the policeman let go. A boy pulled Teddy out, the S.P.C.A. executed him painlessly with lethal gas, the neighborhood slept again...
...white blot on the map." The southern interior of Arabia, centre of population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week and told his story...
Each year when the Treasury's appropriation bill comes up, Wet Congressmen cite such tragedies as this, brand as "murder" the Government's policy of using poisonous denaturants, propose the abandonment of lethal ingredients in industrial alcohol, are overwhelmed by the Dry majority...