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When we arrived Monday, after a swell train ride, in our drawing room, workmen were still working. In fact there were 5,000 of them, who come every morning still. They are painting and plumbing as if their hearts would break...
...Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed him from town to town. Once he even got away with a public...
...flat frozen prairie north of Detroit. It fell on the just and the unjust, and also on a 113-acre tract between Eleven and Twelve Mile Roads. There the rain, sifting through the steel skeleton of a sprawling, one-story building, gathered like dew on the rough jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers, the shouts of glaziers and concrete workers, the huff-puff of switch...
...tank factory site was firm and dry when workmen began to clear it on Sept. 11. By early December it was a marshy morass. Mud-stained steelworkers slopped around in boots, sometimes worked up to their thighs in mud to get the arsenal's skeleton started. When the snows came they skinned along icy girders in biting wind, grinned back at the constructing quartermaster, bald, sunny Major H. R. Kadlec, when he asked them if the going was getting too tough. The few complaints they made were settled by their business agents and Kadlec (Detroiters called him Cadillac...
Since June 22, German workmen have been busy in the clearing. Car 2419D was removed to Berlin. The Alsace-Lorraine monument, the concrete hall, the big granite block and a smaller one marking the spot where the German plenipotentiaries alighted-all were blasted to bits with dynamite while German newsreels ground...