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...morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters, scoundrels, in a mad stampede to stake out new homesteads. Before that day was done, horses had been shot, prairie fires were raging and men had been trampled to death...
...particular blast of Dr. Sprague is likely to be the signal for serious battle, which he promises to begin with a series of syndicated articles on good and bad monetary policies. Carrying the prestige of the "brain trust" to the Roosevelt public opinion and that of the Bank of England to American industrialists and bankers, his opposition will undoubtedly be of prime importance in undermining the President's general support. This, in the opinion of Castor and myself, is indeed a great misfortune. The story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over...
While steelmen bitterly denied the charge of collusion, President Roosevelt stepped in to blast the deadlock in order to get men back to work. He proposed splitting the difference squarely in half with a price of $36.37½a ton. The steelmen agreed. So did Mr. Eastman...
...turned out the next day that the handbills were scare advertisements for "Steeplejack," a fortnightly blast printed in newspaper form. The feeling behind the sheet is that the sacred quiet of college life, beneath which active minds are restive in a year of American revolution and federal change, must be supplanted by zealous examination of the college structure. Somebody at Dartmouth had to find out what the falsities of that structure are and to open thereby the way for radical changes that the administration and the undergraduates separately forecast...
...terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed on its back with another earsplitting blast. Towering flames did the rest. Investigators soon discovered this was no ordinary crash. A good ship, flown in good weather by a company which had lost no passenger in six years and 40 million miles of multi-motored flying, does not simply collapse. Engines had not failed. Fuel tanks had not exploded...