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...Albert was deserted at a critical moment by a gifted pupil on whom he largely depended for his theoretical ideas, he actually solved an impossible problem in the synthesis of a nerve gas. It was Albert's greatest triumph-marred only by the misfortune (from Albert's standpoint) that neither side used nerve gas in World...
...they should no more bring the three Boston schools into the hockey league than into a football league. They fail to note, however, that while almost everyone has a football team, there are few hockey teams, and that the current league would be a natural one from a competitive standpoint. The officials feel, however, that with lower academic requirements, the three schools can maintain an athletic standard which the Ivy League cannot meet. But a consistent policy here would find the Pentagonals either enlarging the Hockey League or taking their skates home and not playing the Boston schools...
Meanwhile, the technicians had gone to work on the "unprepossessing" Clooney features. From a cameraman's standpoint she had several flaws. Her nose was too wide, her legs too skinny. Her face was too long and jaw a bit prognathous. With careful placing of the lights, most of the faults disappeared. Her long face was doubly 'corrected," by arrangement of the lights and by designing a wardrobe which featured high, square-cut necklines and bow ties on her simpler dresses...
Along about 1939 or 1940 the Federal government became interested in the CRIMSON from the standpoint of corporation taxes. Courteous but curious Internal Revenue agents wrote to the paper's president and business manager, requesting them to outline its legal and executive structure so that the Bureau would know what taxes to impose and which people to see about them...
...Bolivia's tin. With huge private investments already under pressure in such neighboring countries as Venezuela, the U.S. cannot openly condone Bolivian nationalization. The RFC, which resumed buying Bolivian tin (at $1.17½ a Ib.) after Paz's revolution, stopped when nationalization occurred. Yet from a strategic standpoint, Bolivia's tin (only 20% of the world's nowadays, but the sole supply in the western hemisphere) is essential...