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Eighty-five percent of the world's productive veins of quicksilver ore (cinnabar) lie in Spain and Italy. The great Spanish mine of Almaden, worked at least since Hannibal's time, was a prime pawn in the late Spanish war. A European cartel, pioneered by the Rothschilds, controls the world price. No. 1 world consumer, the U. S. uses 25,000 to 35,000 flasks * a year, normally buys half its quicksilver from the cartel, produces nearly all the rest itself...
Although the $75 watch was recovered by the police yesterday in a Roxbury pawn shop, the culprit, who was described by the proprietor as a "man of about 32 years," is as yet undiscovered...
...Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have to favor those two nations. Germans, taking this...
...embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly not funny. The only one who manages to smile...
...rook," and he advanced a pawn...