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Moving with the harvest are thousands of workers. Sometimes a man, his wife and a daughter old enough to drive a truck operate a single traveling combine. But other migratory crews are big enough to include a fleet of truckers, factory-trained combine repairmen and rolling cookshacks. Corps of "semi...
Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls...
Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present.
But most were headed for field jobs, mainly in aviation. They serve on ground crews, work as aerographers and photo graphic technicians, gunnery and flying-instrument trainers, operate control tow ers, pack parachutes, drive trucks. Quaint est note of all: women buglers have released the famous Marine "field musics" for...
Late in his life, Leonardo spent two un happy years in Rome. He found it increasingly difficult to finish work, and impossible to compete with such productive paint ers as Michelangelo and Raphael. Finally Leonardo's health began to fail; his right hand became paralyzed. At 64, he took...