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...hours the President recounted the happy details of Mexico's new prosperity: production and employment up, aftosa finally defeated, agriculture thriving. Then he paused, cleared his throat and in a dramatic voice announced the day's special surprise: "Only today we have been informed that the [U.S.] Export-Import Bank has assigned $150 million for our credit ... to be applied to railway improvements, highways, agricultural works including irrigation, and the expansion of electric power and communications."* The news of the biggest single U.S. loan to a Latin American republic in five years, kept secret till that moment...
...Turner of Winnipeg let an orange slip overboard. Before he could recover it the fruit disappeared. A few minutes later, Turner heard a violent threshing in the reeds near shore, rowed over and gaffed a northern pike that was slowly choking to death with an orange stuck in its throat...
...shot out of the water, twisting & turning the line around the old man's whiskers. Quick-thinking Catt drew out a hunting knife, began to cut off the old man's beard. A meddlesome passerby, thinking that Catt was trying to cut the old man's throat, dashed up to attack Catt. The salmon escaped in the melee. Catt and the oldtimer were inconsolable. Moaned Catt: "I knew he'd rather lose his whiskers than his last fish...
...other day I saw one exhausted L-5 pilot, after eleven straight hours over enemy territory, stagger to his tent and flop on a cot. A moment later his commanding officer shook him and said: "We've got a kid over here shot through the throat. We've got to get him to Taegu. Can you keep awake?" The pilot struggled to his feet and muttered: "Litter case? I'm awake." He walked over to his plane and looked in at an ivory-faced boy with a tube dangling from his throat. The pilot stepped...
When the trial began in the crenelated, moated courthouse of nearby Turnhout, Witgoor's constable was called to testify. He shuddered violently and protested that witchcraft was not a policeman's business. Then Judge Boone took a moment to clear his throat. In that moment the constable fled through the doorway to freedom. A court attendant hurried after him, but there was no sign of the fugitive. "Witchery," murmured the court spectators...