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...Oklahoma City, Oilmen Charles F. Urschel and Walter R. Jarrett were playing bridge on a porch with their wives when two black-haired bandits sneaked up with a machine gun. "Don't move or well blow your heads off!" cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded...
...Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only an occasional train, are careful not to kill the rail goose which lays so many golden eggs...
...demands. Likewise they would be put to no great financial loss because, of the 600,000 U. S. textile workers, only about 15,000 are children, toiling mostly in the lint-laden air of Southern mills. But their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages. But because so much of this...
...other star, is the lovely white woman who falls under the spell of her Arab dragomen escorting her into the sands where she is to meet Reginald Denny, her fiance. One anticipates she will be carried off to the tribe and married by force. She is kidnapped but a blow across the face convinces the Arab that she doesn't like fooling, and his prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana is about to become leashed forever to her beloved bridge-builder, she hears...
...Within the past two months two attempts have been made to blow up the U. S. Consulate in Mukden, two more to blow up the British...