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...show: 25,000 loaded freight cars stood dead on the tracks and 93,750 through passengers were marooned. Muskegon, Mich, felt the strike too: one 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars were tied up. It was the same at Fargo, N.D. (where the Great Northern's crack Empire Builder ground to a stop) and at high little towns on the mountain divisions and in the yards at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
...Hume eventually became president of Hsiang Ya, helped to bring a new kind of medicine to China, also learned that China's ancient medical traditions had "unsuspected values" in terms of human nature and the psychological causes of disease. Medicine, he knows, can be "a builder of bridges between nations and cultures...
...life in the Air Forces-toast after toast in champagne to "the Blue Lady of the clouds," love-maddened women, tony chatter, youths who moan: "Look at me, 22 years old and still only a major!" And one of its liveliest ditties spoofs the Army as a character builder...
...prove that Schweitzer is the world's greatest living man. But it does give recognition to a little-known "scholar's scholar." At 30, Albert Schweitzer decided to relinquish his honors as Europe's No. 1 authority on Bach, and as an organist and organ-builder, theologian, philosopher, historian, preacher, teacher and author-to live out his life, and live his faith, in French Equatorial Africa. There, 41 years later, he is still at work...
...Jackson Park Theater could. The four well-heeled sons and daughters of Millionaire Builder Edward I. Bloom, who own and operate the theater, started suit in 1942 under the antitrust act. They claimed that they could not bid on first-run films in a free market...