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...Contest. In St. Louis, a contest to guess how long it would take a 300-pound cake of ice to melt ended suddenly when the cake slid off a platfjorm in a flower-shop window, crashed through a plate-glass window, smashed to smithereens on the sidewalk...
...world." He celebrated with a farewell bombing, climbed through the clouds reciting poetry in time with the engine. "To the verses of 'Gunga Din' I dropped my first bomb ... on the docks of Homalin. ... I finished my ammunition by strafing the main street of [Lashio] . . . saw two plate-glass windows spatter . . . like artificial snow from a Christmas tree, and I laughed hysterically as two figures ran from a pagoda. . . . I landed back home tired and happy...
...clock, 4,000 of them had squeezed into the movie house. They suffered the feature picture while 4,000 more queued up outside. A policeman, pinned against a door jamb, got two ribs fractured and was removed to a hospital. A plate-glass show window fell in, and the crowding jitterbugs shrieked. Thirty more police arrived. Mounted patrolmen wrangled 75 of the under-admission-age children out of the line and sent them home to mother...
...lead carefully indicated. Artist Nicolas writes a number on each to tell his glazier assistants which of 500 shades of colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns and trace on them the remaining lines of Nicolas' drawing. Then the various colored pieces are reassembled and glued with liquid wax to a large, trans parent plate-glass pane...
...except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...