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Boswell's deleted material was not sensational. Starting the Journal soon after Johnson's death, he sent his copy to the printer page by page, found before he reached the middle that his book was getting too long. He made some revisions and excisions and his friend Edmond Malone, famed Shakespearean scholar, made more in the interests of elegance, taste, discretion, brevity. Malone also rewrote so extensively that "hardly a paragraph was printed exactly as Boswell wrote it," and Boswell's repeated defense of the Journal, that Johnson himself had seen and approved it, was "gravely misleading...
...about $13,000 one can buy a five-lens Fairchild for mapping larger areas. One lens shoots straight down, the other four at oblique angles. Distortion in scale caused by photographing at an angle is accurately corrected by a special instrument called a transforming printer. With one of the few nine-lens cameras Fairchild has built for surveying, an area of nearly 600 sq. mi. can be snapped at one exposure...
While others planned a low-priced, easy-to-operate airplane, Taylor actually built one that has made flying obtainable to everyone from printer's devil to busy banker. The factory at Bradford, Pa. has increased its floor space three times since January and has stepped up production schedule from six a week to 20 a week and is still unable to keep pace with incoming orders. An auxiliary assembly plant operates at Long Beach, Calif, for the benefit of West Coast purchasers. This high-wing, 560-lb. monoplane is powered by a thoroughly proven 40 h. p. Continental Aircraft...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...Aberhart to increase the speed and number of transactions in Alberta to such an extent that the terrific turnover will bring Prosperity, as everyone tries to spend his Aberhart dollars before he has to buy more stamps for them. At latest reports the Premier had just received from the printer 200,000 prosperity certificates which he proposed to put into circulation this week...