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...Messrs. Harrison & Doughton went promptly to the White House to get instructions as to just how Franklin Roosevelt wanted his millionaires taken: gently in nets, with hook-line-&-sinker, or by harpoon. What he told them was not, of course, revealed. But Washington soon guessed that harpooning Old Deal millionaires while gently netting or releasing New Deal millionaires, was going to call for nice piscatorial skill. Before sailing time on Wednesday the fishermen very properly refused to name their quarry. They left that to their guide and first witness, Secretary Morgenthau. But Senator Harrison announced politely: "I am sure that...
...stomach. Last week in Manhattan. Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
...mystery. In any case, it appears that the Pleistocene rivers coursed through land that is now submerged and many of them carved deep gorges. That the Hudson carved one of the biggest and deepest was known as long ago as 1882, when soundings were made by the old line-&-sinker method, but an accurate survey had to wait for the development of continuous echo-sounders...
...idea that the chunky, 50-year-old geology professor at Princeton University and his associates had been working on for three years. Dr. Field had no thought of learning anything new about the surface topography of the sea bottom. A great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what lay beneath that bottom. I occurred to him to use the "artificial" earthquake method by which oil prospectors map subterranean rock structures. This involves setting off charges of dynamite, measuring the time...
...score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation in the five following peace years, during which its membership was reduced by one-third. Hook-line-&-sinker the Federation went for the New Deal's NRA, which washed out disastrously under a Supreme Court decision last month. Last week the A. F. of L. was in the midst of another intricate political deal, which promised to turn out no better than average...