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Last week a lady made news when she sent some 200 tons of bricks by parcel post from Philadelphia to a U. S. Army reservation some 31 mi. southwest of Louisville. Ky. The lady was the Director of the U. S. Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross. The bricks were about $200,000,000 in gold, the Government's first bullion shipment to its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox...
Last week's shipment was surrounded with the greatest precautions. Mint guards, Post Office inspectors, Secret Servants toiled all one night under the direction of Madam Director Ross carting the precious canvas-wrapped bricks from the Philadelphia Mint. By next morning they had their precious load packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...terms of Lawrence's will, The Mint cannot be published until 1950. To comply with U. S. copyright laws and prevent printing, Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. printed twelve copies of the book, deposited two with the Library of Congress, as the law requires, offered the remainder for sale at $500,000 each. The ten books, kept in the vault of the Nassau County Trust Co. in Mineola. L. I., are not displayed by the publisher in accordance with Lawrence's will, although anyone with $500,000 to spend can buy a copy. Consequently Critic Canby, reading...
Although he uses characteristically generous language, the main impression conveyed by Dr. Canby is that The Mint is not worth the price asked for it. It is a book of about 200 pages, 9 in. by 10 in., which can be read through in half an hour...
...Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry, was down to 15 pence when he enlisted under the name of Ross. At night in the barracks he wrote the notes that make up The Mint, faithfully copying his companions' "indescribably profane and obscene conversation.'' Somewhat mysteriously Dr. Canby likens the result to Tom Brown's School Days, although he describes The Mint in terms that scarcely suggest Thomas Hughes's high-minded classic: "It is an old story:-the sadism...