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...Tar Pits. "When I talk about the Republican Party here tonight," he went on, "I mean the dinosaur wing of the Republican Party-which unfortunately seems to be in control of that party. They are living in 1896 and 1920. They're made up of the Republicans of 1896 and 1920. And they worship William McKinley and Warren G. Harding . . . Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party...
With whistle-stop abandon, the President went on to track the dinosaur through his favorite tar pit, the Republican Both Congress. There, he said, the G.O.P. proved that it was "after the farmers," "after all wage earners," and "after organized labor." Today the Old Guard is trying "to preserve high profits for the steel companies ('I think they want a strike')," and "prevent wage increases for the steelworkers. That shows exactly where the Old Guard stands. It shows that their hearts lie with the corporations and not with the working people...
Some claim that the captain had sworn not to tell what he was carrying; some, that he never knew. One thing was certain: if the cargo lashed down in the hold of the brig Télémaque that January night in 1790 was really nails and tar, as the manifest stated, it was wrapped in astonishing secrecy. As the little vessel passed the Seineside village of Villequier on her way to Le Havre and the open sea, a cutter of the revolutionary government decided to investigate, and ordered the Télémaque to heave to. Instead...
...drug and arrange a request to the Food & Drug Administration to have it released for general use by physicians. That release cannot be given until May or June; by then, both companies will be ready to market the drug in wholesale lots (it is easily made from coal tar). Probable price: about 75^ for a day's dosage...
...Mile was once his), his 4,000-acre farm, and the tiny Santa Maria Valley Railroad that he bought-the captain never let one of his hobbies lag. "Keep moving," he would say. "A man who gets caught behind a desk is apt to stay there." Out of his tar pits came every sort of ice-age animal to fill up Los Angeles museums, from imperial elephants and mastodons to giant sloths. Somewhere along the line, the captain also began collecting Audubons. Meanwhile, his collection of marine specimens (there is an Aganostomus hancocki Seale fish and a Diploglossus hancocki [Slevin...