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...from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders, blood oozing from their undressed wounds. The wife of the mule barn boss had crawled to safety in the cold boiler. The besieged had had no food for two days; they sipped dirty water from the boiler pipes. At any second they expected to be rushed from their stronghold by a massed attack of unionists, long enraged at their "scab" operation of the Dixie Bee pending negotiation of a new wage...
Captain Turner "almost busted a boiler," steamed up the river at 20 m. p. h. People writhed on the deck, lay panting below, gasping, retching, vomiting. Captain Turner steered close to the dock at Alexandria, six miles from Washington, shouted his news as he went by. Alexandrians called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully...
...York Harbor last week, coal companies perked up, oil companies were cast down and a dead inventor was remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...
...hour, danced till midnight, then rode home to Manhattan on a day coach to be on time for his job of stoking a furnace in the Hotel Wellington. He explained how he trained: by running from home to work (15 mi.) several times a week; by running around the boiler room of the Hotel Wellington; by running up & down its 26 flights of backstairs...
...Once a boiler-stoker in a greenhouse, Mr. Kent received his business training as a salesman for American Druggists' Syndicate. He rose rapidly, became assistant to the president. After a short experience with Vitagraph Co. he helped liquidate General Film, indicted under the Sherman Act, and was soon talking business with Famous Players' Adolph Zukor. Tall Mr. Kent's first Paramount job was in the sales department. He was promoted to be district manager, with offices in Kansas City. His next change was a call to Manhattan where he was made first sales manager, then general manager...