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...rose enthusiastically to important occasions. When news of Benedict Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored...
...firm will take reformed alcoholics who have been on the wagon for three years and are vouched for by teetotaling friends. So far none of the reformed drinkers has backslid. There is always the danger that a policyholder will sneak a drink and get into an accident. But Treasurer Plymat figures that this has occurred no more than half a dozen times. When it happens, the company pays the liability claim and sorrowfully cancels the policy...
...slow waves. The speed averages 2½ in. per minute, and the snail makes about 35 foot-waves to cover this distance. The tractive force is considerable. A snail can lift five times its weight up a vertical surface, and on the horizontal it can pull a toy wagon loaded with 200 times its weight. If 25 snails could be induced to crawl in the same direction at the same time, they could pull the weight of a good-sized...
...CRIMSON was furious the next day: "In the first place there was no riot until wagon loads of police charged the crowd with drawn night sticks, in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it." One student had been knocked unconscious for resisting arrest, apparently while in the act of going for a late snack in the Square...
...Viking's fuel pump, was obtainable only in Buffalo, and to get a new supply would take two weeks because it could be shipped only by careful rail transport. When the discouraging news reached the Martin plant, two designers, Bill Webb and Jack Early, hopped into a station wagon, picked up a drum of per oxide at Buffalo, and drove the fearful stuff to New Mexico with carefree speed...