Ice-cream as a public holiday treat, and oranges and eggs in the regular breakfast menu, are innovations made by the warden of Sing Sing, America’s famous prison. “Heavy water,” a deadly poison, consists of hydrogen atoms twice the normal weight and oxygen. Less than one quart of this newly-discovered substance exists, and it is valued at £30,000. Propaganda will be spread from a new Russia aeroplane which contains, a cinema, printing press, and broadcasting stations. The loudspeakers can be heard from a height of half a mile. Stated to be the smallest in the world, a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford measures three-quarters of an inch square.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1934, Page 1 (Supplement)
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