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...Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov cantered into the Red Square on a sleek bay steed, three Red Army bands blared the "Internationale" and 60,000 troops began an earth-shaking tramp led by picked units of the Ogpu (secret service). New fighting units this year were eight-wheeled "Speed Tanks" mounting two-inch guns and four-motored bombing planes. Swooping through the sky in "Red Star" formation 300 fighting ships made even more noise than the exuberant 30-gun artillery salute...
September is here--and thousands of sport writers breathe a sigh of relief and greet the football season with two-inch headlines. Once more the stadiums swarm like great cement hives and raucous crowds watch the big blue, green, red, or gold team sweep to victory. Again the great God Pigskin is enshrined in the hearts of the mob and "over-emphasis," "commercialism," and "subsidization" lead the catchwords flung back and forth among athletic purists, writers, directors, and old grads...
Visitors to the New York Aquarium last week attempted to elbow their way past guards into the laboratories to see the Aquarium's now most famed visitor- two-inch, red-finned, green-bodied Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter, Siamese fighting fish...
...long, "made," said Builder George Nicholson, "to last a quarter of a century, maybe more." Its hull is of mahogany on a steel frame. The deck of the Shamrock IV was only half an inch thick and made of plywood, but you could load bricks on the two-inch planks of the Shamrock V. It will be much less speedy than the graceful boats which raced for the America's cup in the old days and which, with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern racers and were useless for any purpose except racing. The change has come...
There is a two-Inch gap extending the entire length of the chimney wall to prevent water soaking through to the interior and causing a back draught...