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...Simplification of U.S. customs procedure. The British object to technicalities which classify sheep shears as a "surgical instrument," and by which rugs with fringes on them get charged as lace because the law puts fringes in the lace-and-trimmings category. The U.S. customs maze is well-nigh impenetrable to the would-be British trader without customs-broker guidance, which adds to the cost of British goods...
...electrical fireworks for its Fourth of July show. To shoot the works, Senior Producer Leonidoff, Lighting Director Eugene Braun and their technicians had spent $50,000 and almost two years on a dozen giant stage panels with 24,000 multicolored electric bulbs, 300,000 feet of wiring and a maze of machinery...
...John J. (for Jay) McCloy, then just out of Amherst, later was to spend ten years of his life proving that the rumors were true, and hanging the Black Tom guilt on the German government. He learned the worst of the Germans as he threaded his way through a maze of false leads up & down Europe; he learned of German deceit and arrogance and violence that had led to one world calamity and was to lead to another...
...Lawrence says that she became mechanically-minded in self-defense. Her father was a natural-born inventor with a long string of posthole diggers, folding lawn chairs, etc. to his credit. He was also in the rubber-tired buggy business, and his shop was a maze of band and rip saws and a big, power-driven sewing machine, which Mrs. Lawrence learned to operate when she was nine years old. Her father incidentally, was descended from a Parisian tailor who emigrated...
About his students here and at Oxford, Berlin says, "Very serious, very earnest, very earnest indeed, but only want answers. Don't care about method. Why do I bother leading them round in a maze. Want to know what's good, what's bad. Students in 'twenties drank too much, too gay, didn't work hard enough, but wanted problems. No rush, no short-cuts...