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...would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that considerations of employe safety make it necessary. They say that hand signals cannot easily be seen from end to end of long trains, that air-brakes tend to lose their effectiveness, that there is danger from slack surges and buckling...
Since Marie's latest physicians were scientists of unimpeachable integrity, their communique did much to explode one of the wildest palace yarns to emerge in Europe since the War. The illness of Queen Marie happened to precede the expulsion of slack-chinned former Prince Nicholas from the royal family and from Rumania. Bucharest gossips, who enjoy exercising the most heated imaginations in the world, were thus encouraged to circulate the following melodrama...
...months ago, after a long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
...From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take up the 100 ft. of slack in the wire and trip the time trigger. To the winner of this elemental lottery, begun in 1917, goes the pool...
...Stakhanovism is a marvellous invention for brisking up idleness (in old days there was the knout). Stakhanovism would be useless in a country where the workers all work. But out there, as soon as they are left alone, they become slack." The bleak impersonality of some model houses depressed him: "Can this depersonalization, towards which everything in the U. S. S. R. seems to tend, be considered as progress? For my part, I cannot believe it." The nearly universal conformity of opinion depressed him more. "In the U. S. S. R. everybody knows beforehand, once and for all, that...