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...President Franco was in Salamanca when news of the Italo-German recognition came and with him rejoiced Spain's No. 1 Philosopher, famed Miguel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca. With the whole city celebrating, anyone who looked like an Italian or a German was hoisted shoulder-high by Salamancans who in lisping Spanish did their best to sing the Italian Fascist anthem Giovinezza and the German Nazi Horst Wessel Lied...
...generator, proudly delivered by General Electric Co., was not to be put on the line without ceremony. Mr Ford spied GE's Chief Turbine Engineer Arthur K. Smith at the control station, joined him there. A Ford steering wheel, shoulder-high, had been hitched to the release valve. On the governor two V-8 emblems would begin to move as the giant got under way. Mr. Ford gave the wheel seven or eight turns. Nothing happened. The Master of Dearborn frowned, turned to Engineer Smith, and his lips seemed to frame the question, "What the hell?" Smith signaled...
...seven years. When a publisher's representative cried to see the manuscript she told him that she was merely "playing around with the idea of doing a novel some time or other" and then showed him a first draft of Gone With the Wind that stood almost shoulder-high...
Seyoum's Retreat. Meanwhile with splitting headaches and aching limbs members of the Italian tank corps were scouring the mountain sides and valleys searching for outposts and possible enemy ambuscades. The smallest tanks, ''fleas" to the troops, were scarcely shoulder-high. Last week "fleas" scrabbled through gullies, over boulders and along trails that would have stalled a goat. But always ahead of them was chunky, wily Ras Seyoum, onetime Governor of Aduwa, commander of the Ethiopian forces in the North...
...Supreme Pontiff entered, carried shoulder-high on his portable throne, it was seen that the usual canopy had been stripped away, as if for freer action. The two enormous, semicircular flabella or ostrich fans were also omitted...