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...Heinies for refusal to follow work orders it is no more than nine million other guys in our Army have been yearning to do for years." In Boston and New York, Hearstlings set "storm of protest" experts to work, got shocked statements from statement-givers, bombarded Congressmen with telegrams. Upshot: Private McGee was reinstated. (Other newspapers went along cautiously; some suspected that there might be something wrong with a private of seven years' standing...
Having played out this sorry and expensive farce in Newark, the federal antitrust attorneys now have the facts about plastics. Their probable next step will be to start a civil suit. A typical upshot would then be an amicable consent decree, with the defendants promising to discontinue certain pricing practices that appear unjustified...
...section dated 1240 was not in the same handwriting, and hence might not have been written at the same time. He also noted that the type of musical notation in which Sumer is icumen in was written was not in use in England until nearly a century later. Upshot: Sumer is icumen in dates from about 1310, is still the oldest six-part song, but not the oldest canon. It is still the oldest popular song...
...were still making their fledgling, flights, Inventor Turnbull was building Canada's first wind tunnel. Later he concentrated on aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
...upshot we got a great army ashore equipped with masses of artillery, tanks and very many thousands of vehicles, and our troops, moving inland, came into contact with the enemy. The German reactions to this descent have been remarkable...