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...last summer, he refused to speak until an Armenian Republic flag had been removed from the stand. Forty-two witnesses testified for the State, 33 for the defense. Scenes of the murder were re-enacted. A burly assistant district attorney marched in front of the jury box, waving a pencil as if it were a crucifix. One by one three flashing-eyed Armenian women attempted to tackle him in football style. Because the jury could not remember the defendants' names (Leylegian, Sarkisian, Yarganian, Mozian, Tchalitkian, Sarafian, Mirijanian, Zodigian, Andreassian) a cardboard sign behind them listed each by number...
...weaker." Some specific accusations of code evils: Most hotels and many contractors use Grade B, slightly damaged plumbing fixtures, a large part of small manufacturers' output. Under the plumbing fixture code, dominated by three leading companies. Grade B products can now be sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged products. Big producers use chicory. Little producers...
France. Someone calling himself "The Three Judges of Hell" mailed ten simple dynamite bombs to a radio broadcasting station, a publishing house, an automobile magnate's office, a department store, a beauty products laboratory, a baby food company, a pencil company, a film office, the Society of Authors and a boarding house. Resembling magazine rolls, two were opened and detonated, wounding three postal clerks and an automobile employe. Wrapped in the catalog of a St. Etienne munitions firm, each bomb contained the message: "We will strike the French people without distinction as to age. sex or rank, until they...
Robert Bogue got a pencil, computed how much water would be necessary to keep 10,000,000 comatose ladybirds at the proper humidity during shipment from his bug nursery in Glendale, near Los Angeles, to the cooperative group of Virginia growers who wanted them to patrol some 16,000 acres. Packing case after packing case was withdrawn from the 60x40 ft. cold-storage room, the water carefully doused on the moss in the cases and the huge ladybird army started east under refrigeration. Then Robert Bogue sent a bill...
...Hagerstown, Md.. races, the pencil of one D. H. Beck ran down the list of entries, stopped short beside the name of a two-year-old filly. On her nose Beck slapped a $1 bet. First across the line galloped his choice. Back home where his wife was trying out a new cook went D. H. Beck with $404.20 profit from his bet on Filly Trycook...