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...rock now catching their dinner with those fishing lines they had aboard. There'll be driftwood to make a fire. . . ." When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later-or they are alive and will be picked up. Keep your chin up. Bee." Mrs. Noonan presently collapsed...
...Only outright "gangsters and terrorists" were excluded from the bill. This provoked an ironical outburst from Representative Manuel Penabas and several other members of the anti-Batista bloc in the lower house, who claimed that they were being threatened by the Boss's musclemen. Cried Representative Penabas: "We are armed for any eventuality...
...members, for taking jewelry workers into a pants makers' union, watchmakers into a radio union. President Wharton of the Machinists described the C. I. O. as "Lewis, Hillman, Dubinsky, Howard and their gang of sluggers. Communists, radicals and soap-box artists, professional bums, expelled members of labor unions, outright scabs and the Jewish organizations with all their Red affiliates." President Mahon of the Street Car employes told how pickle workers had been taken into C. I. O.'s automobile workers' union and added, "even the Machinists never did that...
Last week George Austin got an offer he could ill afford to refuse. To a syndicate of Texas oilmen he leased the Jumbo for 35 years with an option to buy it outright within 20 years for a cool $10,000,000. Under the lease the Austins will get from 10% to 20% of gross production, depending on the grade of the ore, but in no case less than $100,000 per year. Mr, Austin also stipulated that should the option be exercised, the $10,000,000 must be paid in instalments of not less than $1,000,000 annually...
...Yeah, I saw them, two of them, riding fast, and suddenly a tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...