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...technique of the trades he depicted, as when he made an electric driller bend sidewise, for the sake of an esthetic curve, above his drill, instead of holding the drill in front of him where it could get the full thrust of his body. Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes...
Meanwhile the respected Rintaro Nishimura, hereditary hearse-maker to the Imperial House, arrived at Tokyo from Kyoto, the ancient Capital, with 50 workmen and began work on the great two-wheeled cart in which the Tenno's remains will journey to the grave. For constructing the Imperial Hearse he will receive the princely fee of 100,000 yen ($50,000). No one else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse...
...Brussels he said: "My 40,000 White Knights are now workmen, but their spirit of union is not lost. Each contributes a portion of his pay to our organization. Never before has there been such a voluntary submission to common discipline by an army scattered but not routed. Ours is a real army of knights preparing their forces for the day when Holy Russia may need them...
...what would Henry Ford do about it? General Motors announced that it would follow its recent policy of advertising to create a market and thus be enabled to keep its prices down. Would Henry Ford, whose keyhole was most tightly plugged, follow a like policy? Would he, as dismissed workmen hinted, put on the market one of several six-cylinder models he had ready for production at any minute? He had denied this plan, repeatedly. He drily denied it again last week, saying: "Several good automobile companies are now producing sixes. . . . We keep the engineers working...
...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...