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...workers employed in constructing and repairing the country's power lines. With minimum resort to dramatic contrivance, it presents certain interlocking episodes in the lives of Linemen Red Blayd (Pat O'Brien) and Slim (Henry Fonda). It begins when Slim, a farm boy fascinated by the hazardous function of the linemen putting up a transmission tower, asks for a job; it ends, after Red falls to his death in a high-wire accident, with Slim climbing a tower in a blizzard to resume the repair job thus interrupted. Told with a drawling, mournful humor, the film builds...
...sides of the respirator are portholes through which nurses can serve Fred Snite with a bed pan, give him the enemas he constantly requires because his abdominal muscles do not function, bathe and massage him, change his bed and personal linen...
Less unrealistic than it seemed, Schmeling's stubborn conduct had a purpose: to force the New York State Athletic Commission, whose function it is to give prize fighting an air of respectability, to award him the title by default. Last week, when Schmeling went from Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio...
...recent action of postal officials in two Ohio cities refusing to accept for delivery packages of food for workers inside the Republic Steel plants, is but another evidence of how far the American government has departed from its true function of serving as an umpire to settle difference between conflicting sections of the community...
...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...