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...days before the bridge inaugural, some members of the British House of Commons were talking with the Agent in London of the State of New South Wales, Mr. A. C. Willis. They told him they had learned of a plot in Sydney to pick up six-foot Premier Lang just as he was opening the bridge and throw him overboard into Sydney harbor, 172 ft. below...
Discontented murmurs rose to muttered threats, curses. Prominent beside the auctioneers stood W. G. Crabtree, 50, vice president and general manager of Owensboro Loose Leaf Tobacco Co., operator of six of the seven '"floors" in the town. Farmers rejected bids right & left, began to mill about excitedly shouting. "You can't take our tobacco that way!" In the confusion someone began throwing apples at six-foot Mr. Crabtree, who dodged handily, but the auction, now a riot, was called off. Only 78,000 lb. of dark leaf tobacco, mostly for export to Europe for making cheap cigars, have...
...snakes glared into each other's cold beady eyes, along came snake No. 3, a six-foot Cape cobra, which coiled itself nearby and raised its hooded head to inspect the tug-of-frog...
Women picketers stood in the street, cheered on by Gandhi-capped bystanders, shrilly squealing Nationalist songs. Police, swinging heavy six-foot bamboo lathis, charged. Picketers clenched their teeth, took the blows as they fell. Injured were rushed off to hospitals, other pickets took their place, the singing recommenced, the police charged again, and so on through the day. By nightfall 250 people were badly injured, 400 arrested. Out of a registered electorate of 60,000, only 1,473 succeeded in recording their votes...
...aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over, retreated to caves, amused themselves watching the British blow up their raiment. Another rumor reported that the invaders were led by a fearless, six-foot girl named Nobahar, daughter of a dead Afridi chieftain. After a week of air- bombing, British official reports had the Afridi in full retreat...