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...male population of Bridgeport, Conn., or Nashville, Tenn., or Long Beach. Calif., or the whole State of Nevada. If it was a mob then Detroit was seeing the biggest industrial mob scene* in modern U. S. history. The crowd milled quietly but listened too as, in a hoarse droning roar from the loudspeakers, Homer Martin breathed defiance in all directions...
...fact that he is there, explains the management, hangs the underlying popularity of the University as a movie house. In no other establishment is the smacking of lips so delicate or the roar of Tarzan so beastlike; and to the shadowy figure in the leges belongs all credit for the perfection of sound control...
...Today, however, those who placed their confidence in us are reassured. For the tumult and the shouting have broken forth anew-and from substantially the same elements of opposition. This new roar is the best evidence in the world that we have begun to keep our promises, that we have begun to move against conditions under which one-third of the nation is still ill-nourished, ill-clad, ill-housed...
...make modern San Franciscans chuckle, General Manager Clarence Lindner dug up a prophetic cartoon of 1889 which fantastically foretold today's San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, the transport planes and air clippers which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket...
...representatives of 46 State Federations with some 3,000,000 members. Already they had secured enough State conservation legislation to make Founder Darling feel that his efforts had been worth while. Egged on by his eloquence, they now ratified a national Federation constitution, elected him president with a roar, planned an aggressive national crusade to convince the country's legislators of wildlife conservation's important place in the national picture of land utilization, forest preservation, water purification, erosion and flood control. This year will be devoted largely to propaganda and fundraising, climaxed by a Wildlife Restoration Week beginning...