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...Mine. Bill Green was 15 when he went to work beside his English-born father in the central Ohio coal fields. He soon observed that the companies were cheating the miners by paying only for large chunks of coal which did not fall through a 2-in. mesh. Green's reaction was typically undramatic. He went on working in the mine, became a first-rate miner, and for many years drew the highest pay at Morgan-Run. He joined the U.M.W., rose through its ranks to become (1906) state president. He got elected to the Ohio state senate...
When she has answered her letters, Wanda Landowska is ready to descend. She loops her long, still-black hair, only sparsely greyshot, around her head, dons her blazing red corduroy robe ("red is for violence, like Bach, sometimes"), her flat, gold-mesh slippers and goes down to the kitchen for a breakfast of figs, dates and lettuce...
...every two men will have lost all his teeth or will be suffering from a disease of the gums or jawbone. For the toothless unfortunates, Dentists Stanley ]. Behrman and George F. Egan described a new method of locking false teeth in place with magnets. Protected by plastic and tantalum mesh, the magnets are imbedded in the jawbone and lock tight against similar magnets built into the denture...
...Mesh appears for almost all degrees of formality in footwear. Classic opera pumps sport sides and fronts of lattice work. Many of the more extreme models consist completely of straps of varying sizes attached to thin soles...
...transport (TIME, April 23), has taken another beating so far on its new two-motored airline plane, the 4-0-4. One of Martin's major jobs-building Britain's twin-jet Canberra bomber-has proved costly. There have been long delays trying to mesh British and American blueprints...