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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retaliating he appealed to the village judge. After a weighty consideration the judge ordered the guilty party to pay a fine (considerably less than $5) to his friend. Ahmet Agha received the money from his friend, doubled it, placed it on the judge's bench, slapped the judge twice and left the court room whistling a tune." You must print this in your Letters section; don't you think so too? OMIROS KALCOGLU Istanbul, Turkey
...supreme test to which last week Zlin paid triumphant tribute. Thomas Bat'a had been up half the night at Zlin working over a big shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. The day dawned murky, with fog blotting out tall Bat'a chimneys. Twice the pilot of the Bat'a private plane, an ace pilot who had flown Thomas Bat'a successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed up beside his ace, ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth...
...Post grudgingly took five hours sleep, vowing not to shut his eyes again until reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave and Pilot Post had practically all the burden of solo flying. Twice he got lost in dirty weather over Siberian wilderness, but found Novosibirsk by sheer skill and luck. He had stretched his lead to 17 hr. upon bounding...
...esophagus, the same does not hold true for beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years her mice received the same diet (mostly fresh bread, twice-pasteurized whole milk, timothy hay and bird seed). Thus most of their cancers came from irritations, cage-rubbing, fights, minor infections. This does not disprove her heredity theory, for the cancers occur only in the susceptible animals. Lately she has been working on mice fed diets comparable to the varied...
...were to testify, waited in Mrs. Harriman's apartment, he slipped out of the service en trance of his sanatorium, took a cab to a Hudson River ferry. Back & forth between Manhattan and New Jersey, Banker Harriman rode six times on different boats, gazing moodily at the water. Twice he started to climb over the rail, was hauled back by deckhands who failed to recognize him until hours later when they heard of the search. They last saw him driving away from the Manhattan pier...