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...graves the scientists found more than in the ruined houses. Some skulls contain large ivory eyeballs inlaid with jet pupils (see cut, p. 59). Birdlike ivory beaks were substituted for the corpse's nose. Who were these people? How did they manage to live? Whence did they come, whither did they go? Says Professor Rainey: "We, as archeologists, have a difficult problem to explain the Ipiutak culture...
...Whither, America? During the past years we, on the side-lines, have criticized the democracies for not halting aggression sooner, by war if necessary; we have criticized Sweden for not aiding Finland. Turkey for not aiding Greece; we, on the side-lines, have criticized others for not fighting our battle...
...specify what type of bomber was used. The latest Vickers-Armstrong Wellington bombers claim an effective range of 2,000 miles, with 2,500 pounds of bombs, but if they actually can make such a range, it is curious that they have not been used on missions to Austria, whither many of Germany's war industries have been moved. This raid may have been pulled off by U. S. Flying Fortresses...
Oliver branched out to public parks and cemeteries, eventually to $10,000-and-up jobs for cinema stars in Hollywood, whither his fame had traveled. The worm wizard moved to California, set up a ten-acre experimental farm in Los Angeles County. It was guarded by tall board fences topped with barbed wire. When Depression set in after 1929, Oliver at last told his secret, for the benefit of hard-pressed farmers. By that time he had rolled up a tidy fortune...
...Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common. In 1938 Erie chugged into receivership (whither eleven Class I roads had preceded her) for the fourth time...