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...Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
Three years ago Mrs. Louis Sigaud of Brooklyn read an article in a pulp detective-story magazine about a famed Confederate spy named Belle Boyd. Turning to her husband, she remarked that the subject would make a good book. Her husband, who should know, agreed. A World War I counterespionage agent who rose to be a lieutenant colonel in the Military Intelligence Reserve, he proceeded to write the book himself...
...Sigfrid Edstrom, chairman of the Swedish General Electric Co., and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, hoped for a worldwide lowering of tariffs and reduction of import quotas. Einar Flygt, vice president of the Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...
...gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...
...Commissioner not recognize the existence of chaotic disorganization in our cities or is it merely that he objects to intelligent, experienced students of cities expressing an opinion in a field in which he is trying to secure full control?" Barbara Lewis of Trenton, N.J. compared Moses to a pulp magazine reader who presumes to attack Shakespeare and Tolstoy. "The genius of Saarinen and Gropius will fortunately long survive this stupid Philistine outburst. Intelligent Americans will blush to think that this is the reception we accord distinguished European artists, and that the grossness of Mr. Moses is the measure...