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...more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom for a revolutionary seapower plant. A shoreward section of the pipe had been successfully laid the fortnight before (TIME, June 23). The seaward section, the most important one, the most ticklish one to lay, cost more than $1,000,000. Two steel cables, one inch in diameter, stretched out from shore to tie the pipe to its land base. Along the pipe's length were 120 tanks of compressed air, keeping it afloat...
...cope. When it was a matter of reminding Russia that, as a signatory of the Pact of Paris, she really should not go to war with China, Statesman Stimson had to utilize the good offices of Foreign Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore from fulfilling a $2,000,000 deal with Russia for 20 bombing planes and an aircraft factory. As British trade representatives informally explained at the State Department...
...Ticklish was the task faced by genial, dapper James ("Jim") Speyer, who was born in the home city of the house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...
Captain Dickey is faced with a harder job this season than he has had in the past. His former activities in rowing have been carried on from far up in the shell. This year he has the ticklish job of "second stroke" on his hands at No. 7, rowing behind a comparatively green stroke. Colloredo-Mansfeld, who was probably the first Freshman ever to row in a first University crew, is the stroke referred to, and although his experience is not as impressive as that of several other candidates for the position, his present form is all in his favor...
...Ticklish in the extreme were two vital problems faced and dealt with last week by beady-eyed Professor Julius Maniu, peasant-born Prime Minister of Rumania...