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Briny Deep. In Tulsa, a burglar moseyed around a market, stepped on a weak spot in the floor, dropped into a. 60-gal, pickle barrel...
...reconstruction of the children [of Europe and Asia] is more precious than factories and bridges. For they will determine the good or evil future of Europe. ... If every source of supply [is] scraped to the bottom of the barrel, we can pull the world through this most dangerous crisis...
Before Hodgson intervened, Russia had the U.S. and Britain over a barrel. No one seriously believed that Franco was about to go on the warpath, and Gromyko had no constructive proposal on how to get rid of him. But if Stettinius and Cadogan voted tacit aid & comfort to Franco by defeating Gromyko, Russia could use that fact to advance her own ends, from Trieste to Tokyo. If the West continued to do nothing about Franco, it would in crease the chance that his successor will be more Communist than democratic...
...financial report, Reynolds Co. said reassuringly: "Frankly, one of the problems was the occasional development , of a small air bubble in the barrel of the pen which sometimes prevented the free flow of ink to the ballpoint. Literally thousands of perfect pens were, therefore, returned to the retailer as being defective...
Eccentric & Enormous. Like the works of other Southern writers (Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) Author Welty's earlier books also had their full quota of human abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train...