Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL-Virginia Lee Burton - Houghton Mifflin...
...less than 50 miles from the border, the greatest iron deposit on the American continent, our ore running 60 to 68%, with millions of tons which can be picked up by steam shovel. This is not far from Presidio on the Texas border line. Our engineers predict that at some future time in world history, the western hemisphere will get all its ore from this section...
...rights worth much more, replied: "I guess not. But I'll tell you what I'll do-I'll give you $40,000 for Paramount." So are his crazy cracks. A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows." "What!" exclaimed Kaufman. "You have to stoop...
Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.: a $12,900, 200-h.p. dirt truck, powered in front and rear wheels, with ten forward speeds, ten cubic yards capacity, sensitive hydraulic steering, dual controls so that a driver can stand on its running board and drive it under an excavating shovel. Also a $13,000 fire engine that can travel at 75 m.p.h., pump 1,000 gallons of water per minute...
Included are many of the properties used in the technicolor film, produced last year, including a hand-painted rubber shovel used in the graveyard murder scene, a balsa wood cane used in a fight sequence, Injun Joe's wig, and one of Bocky Thatcher's costumes...