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Though the treaties themselves were not particularly important, it seemed likely that the first act of Acting President Mendez' official life might be very important indeed. Minister Aranha (whose name means "spider" in Portuguese) was openly rumored to be spinning a web. On his way to Chile he had stopped in Buenos Aires, and one guess was that behind the screen of unimportant business he was trying to weave Argentina and Chile together with his own country into an A.B.C. bloc. Lending substance to this guess was the report that he was prepared to offer loans and credits from...
Keep 'em Rolling had a big-name debut. Its theme ditty, composed for the occasion by Rodgers & Hart, came bugle-like from the lips of musical comedy's forceful Ethel Merman. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman (with a cute script) kept the program rolling. He discussed the spider situation with a Cleveland professor who has made a specialty of extracting spider silk direct from the producer for cross hairs in range finders. He introduced, as "the nation's No. 1 No man," Priorities Chief Donald M. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson told the nation why. For drama, Maurice...
...Tacoma's shipyards, 260 miles to Seattle's Boeing bomber plants, the work could not stop. The roustabouts, cat jockeys, bulldozers, greasers, welders, dynamiters, mixers, drillers, riggers, still pressed for time, worked on, unmindful of little ceremonies and speeches before movie cameras. With the precise delicacy of spider legs, the slender, giant cranes moved steadily on, lifting twelve-ton buckets of concrete to pour on the dam's western heights. "Dinky" skinners drove trains of concrete buckets over the sky-high trestle; tin-helmeted shove runners and gear-jammers, tools in their belts, plowed on with their...
...during the last few months, Kingoro Hashimoto has sat still as a spider, spinning a web of revolt with his subtle talk. He brain-trusted Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye in the latter's return to power, and was one of the eagerest agitators for the dissolution of the old political parties...
...brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy and tired, but in bed they are tortured by terrifying nightmares, wakened by violent muscular spasms. And finally, "there cannot be any doubt," according to noted Neurophysiologist Fritz Heinrich Lewy of the University of Pennsylvania, "that industrial C52 poisoning leads to insanity...