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Result. Unlike the trade treaty with Canada which evoked a frightful roar from U. S. producers (TIME, Nov. 25), the French treaty caused almost no stir at all. Few of the U. S. products on which France lowered the duty have serious competition from French agriculture and industry. U. S. producers of brandy, wines, perfumes, feather dusters and the like were not politically potent enough to make their small squawks heard in Washington. Last week both the U. S. and French publics seemed decidedly ready to exchange champagne for automobiles, Roquefort cheese for fountain pens...
...sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...
...Italian people have created an empire with their blood. They will fertilize it with their work. They will defend it against anyone with their weapons. Will you be worthy of it?" From the hysterical crowd came the roar...
...roar of the factory is in me. It gives me rhythm, It gives me energy...
...East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another...