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...operation: two canals are fashioned In the muscles of the arm, one in the flexors, one in the extensors. The surgeon marks out a two-inch square of skin above the elbow or wrist (on a handless arm), cuts it at the top, bottom and one outer edge. Then he rolls the upper and lower sides of the skin into a little tube and stitches them together. This leaves the underlying muscle exposed...
...Hard-set reinforced concrete makes the best plug-a two-inch steel pipe lowered into the hole, and packed inside and out with cement. But concrete that is not reinforced can be drilled out like the filling of an old tooth...
...Francisco, where Hearst headlines every evening vie with Scripps-Howard's, Murder and War competed for readers' attention one evening last fortnight. Late editions of Hearst's Call-Bulletin bannered in two-inch letters across the top of Page One: U.S. NAVY GIVES 15T FULL STORY OF ALASKA BATTLE. Across the top of Page One Scripps-Howard's News played: RED CARNATION MURDER! Under the News's headline was a picture of a comely blonde college coed who had been shot to death in a motorists' cabin by a lover who left a bunch...
...time of their departure neither unit [Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles] had been able to give its men any training with the two-inch mortar. They had never fired a three-inch mortar. They had never fired an anti-tank rifle. They had never fired an anti-aircraft machine gun. They had never fired a submachine gun. They had never fired a rifle grenade. They had never thrown a live bomb . . . the Winnipeg Grenadiers had never even fired their Bren guns and, until just before their departure, had never fired service ammunition with their rifles...
Most important gentleman friend was probably German-American Dr. Walter T. Scheele, president of New Jersey Agricultural Chemical Co. He showed young Attaché von Papen how to destroy ships at sea by means of incendiaries made out of a short piece of two-inch lead pipe. These were manufactured aboard the S.S. Friedrich der Grosse (then lying off Hoboken), smuggled aboard freighters by German agents and longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth...