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...already beginning to ship abroad quantities of Japan's small store of gold. Internally the Government launched 200,000,000 yen of deficit bonds, announced it would be necessary "to readjust [private] investment capital," presumably a euphemism for a capital levy. The Knife of War was about to slit China's throat but it was also about to slit Japan's purse...
...more gratifying because so rare were the two campaigns which the Crow agency did put across. As publisher of China's first fashion book, introducing slit skirts to replace trousers, Author Crow is proud to have brought out of hiding "the most beautiful leg the world has ever seen." As publisher of China's first manual on poker-playing, he not only turned out a tremendous bestseller, but had the deep satisfaction of restoring that game to the classic traditions obtaining when he played it in Fort Worth, Tex. 30 years ago, before decadence set in through...
...magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker in officially determining that the seals were authentic, intact. As he fumbled, the Barlman grew more & more excited, Deputies and Senators shouting their advice until finally the Egyptian President declared himself too overwrought to open the envelope and it was slit by a less nervous Senator...
...last week, officials of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital revealed that they are building an artificial socket for an artificial eye in the head of a one-eyed baby. Plastic operations began 18 months ago when the baby, a blue-eyed blonde, was 18 months old. Surgeons first slit the skin where her second eye should have been and reamed out a cavity. When this healed, surgeons lined the cavity with mucous membrane taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect to give the child eyelashes and blinkable lids by fastening...
...When he slit open the sac, the pink buttocks of a five-month fetus protruded. In attempting to lift out the fetus, Dr. Brunkow felt some resistance: the mon ster's head was attached to the sac. Dr. Brunkow cut this attachment and then found that the inclusion's liver, which had developed outside its body, was also attached to the sac. Another nick of a scalpel freed Barbara Stobie of her ab normal burden and permitted Dr. Brunkow to close her up. He left the skin-like sac within her, to be removed at some more favorable...