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Methods for using home materials, such as pipe, tin cans, bolts and gravel, in manufacturing bombs were demonstrated and instruction was given in sabotage nuisance tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial...
...Chester, Pa., Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Beaumont, Tex., Tampa, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., Oakland, Calif., Wilmington, Del. In collaboration with Labor's Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox announced a plan to round up unemployed artisans in the interior, transport them to the coasts. Some of the sand was taken out of the Navy Department's gears. Payments to contractors have been increased and speeded up. Navy-yard workers were put on overtime (at time-&-a-half...
...YOUR BRIEF REFERENCE TO ME AS "SCARLET-FACED SWAMPLANDS SLICKER" AT CHICAGO. I WISH IN THE INTEREST OF ACCURACY TO SAY: MY BIRTH AND HABITAT ARE ON THE PINEYWOODS DRY SAND-LANDS OF THE SOUTH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD A MAN AS HOMELY AS I AM CALLED A SLICKER. YOUR LAST REFERENCE TO ME WAS AS A "BACKWOODS NOEL COWARD." THE BACKWOODS IS ACCURATE...
...Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn by the feet of generations of camels traveling from oasis to oasis-where in fact the only cultivated land is the green strip that follows the winding Nile...
...comment Demaison invests this comet and, at length, the whole of his narrative, with a strange symbolic radiance. At the end, the comet masked by storm, the ship helmed by a halfwit, he is wrecked. When he comes to, he, the halfwit, a dog, a cat, sit on the sand and gaze into the gashed hull. The beach is one intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once carried his loving serpents he has scooped the black sand, richly loaded with titanium. It will...