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...order to prove that there was no mistake respecting the degree of heat indicated by the thermometer, and that the air which they breathed was capable of producing all the well-known effects of such a heat on inanimate matter, they placed some eggs and a beefsteak upon a tin frame near the thermometer, but more distant from the furnace than from the wall of the room. In the space of 20 minutes the eggs were roasted quite hard, and in 47 minutes the steak was not only dressed, but almost...
...change began with the phonograph. The machine which Edison invented in 1877 was an impractical toy which, as its needle scratched a cylinder of tin foil, made noises like a man strangling to death. The commercial "gramophones" which followed (colloquially called screech boxes) were not much better. But the early disc phonographs, which delivered both Caruso and Cohen on the Telephone, were too delightful to be resisted. The speed with which they became a national obsession was reflected by the financial statements of the Victor Talking Machine Co., which did $500 worth of business in 1901 and $12 million...
...headlines announced it. Tin-Plate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr. and Lana Turner, blonde and nubilissimous cinemactress, would be married as soon as he could get a divorce from Actress Arline Judge. From Hollywood, wires signed "Lana and Bob Topping" went out to 150 friends, inviting them to a big celebration at the swank Mocambo Club...
Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
Repayment: Dollars would be supplied as outright grants or as loans (through funds supplied to the Export-Import Bank) according to each nation's ability to repay. One possible asset for the U.S.: a chance to get and stockpile such critical raw materials as tin, natural rubber, industrial diamonds, quinine, manganese, chromium, copper, lead, zinc...