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...Roman-style aqueduct tunneled under the surrounding mountains, electric pumps began sluicing 4,500,000 cu. ft. of water per day. Nearly three years later, the level of the lake lowered some 60 feet, two crumbling skeleton frameworks lay exposed. Made of oak, pine and fir, covered with woolen cloth and sheathed outside with lead studded with bronze, the saucer-bottomed ships were 220 and 235 feet long. To facilitate navigation on the tiny lake, a pair of rudders could be fixed to either end of each barge. Lead piping indicated that fountains and gardens had once decorated the broad...
They supplied military needs which no other source in China could produce so efficiently-gloves, caps, greatcoats, padded clothes, gauze, tents, field cots. They saved many a soldier on the northern front from freezing last winter by producing 100,000 woolen blankets. Operating near sources of raw materials and usually for local consumption, they eliminated transportation costs. Above all they provided millions of refugees who trekked west on the heels of freedom with the hope of lasting relief in the form of jobs. At initial cost of only $7, the cooperatives can give a man work which permanently supports...
...ecclesiastical powers. Then a great throng of priests, bishops and Catholic laymen filled St. Patrick's Cathedral. Burly Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia-substituting for Archbishop Spellman's onetime superior, ailing William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston-placed around the Archbishop's shoulders a narrow woolen band embroidered with crosses. It was a pallium, symbol of the powers an Archbishop shares with the Pope...
Meanwhile, the 1940 "corrective" recession was gaining momentum. In Textiles, surpluses pushed prices down most sharply. Cotton mills, mostly on three shifts for months, are practically through shipping on 1939 orders, must face the fact that new orders are equal to only 33% to 40% of their capacity. Woolen mills are in the same plight...
Into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art strolled a shy young woman wearing flat shoes, high woolen socks, a dark blue slouch hat with brim pulled down, a dark blue coat. Busily unpacking Italian art masterpieces from the Golden Gate International Exposition were museum employes. Because flustered Allen Porter of the museum staff recognized equally flustered Greta Garbo, the film star saw the pictures a day before critics...