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Five thousand men, bravest remnant of the old Imperial Guard, shouldered their rifles again and marched away. Tired little Haile Selassie, forgetting the raw burns on his arm, retired into his Palace for a final conference with his chieftains. The Government, it was plain, would have to move. Should it go southwest to Gore, near British Sudan...
...subsidiary, Northrop Co., had $4,500,000 in orders. Today they have $15,000,000. About $8,000,000 of this came in Army contracts awarded month ago. Some $3,000,000 more came last week from the Navy in a contract for 114 torpedo bomber planes. The remnant is made up of orders for the DC2 and the new DC-3, better known as the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport...
Plunging into this black morass with flashlights, hunting parties finally came across a 100-yd. scar in the forest which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
...shabby Washington walk-up languishes a lackpenny remnant of the Anti-Saloon League, making itself known only by an occasional press handout concerning increases in drunkenness. Housed nearby are the W. C. T. U. and Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, reviving gradually from the numbing shock of Repeal. But in Manhattan last week a new temperance organization swung into action with a disavowal of oldtime rumfighters' aims and tactics...
...Court was probably the deadest political issue in the land. That deadness was precisely what gave World Court advocates hope of getting the U. S. in the Court this time. Senators Hiram Johnson of California, William Edgar Borah of Idaho and a handful of other bitter-enders, the ragged remnant of 1919, would orate against it, but nose-counters figured that well over the requisite two-thirds of the Senate would complaisantly go along with the President. In fact, approval of the World Court seemed so imminent as to impair the Administration's strategy of using this old subject...