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Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
Isotopes. The distribution of radioactive isotopes is growing rapidly. By the end of June, U.S. customers got 3,136 shipments of radioisotopes from the Oak Ridge pile. Foreign countries (none behind the Iron Curtain...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...
...like that Jim Crow they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...
...memo to the press" indicated that the Government was about to buy large quantities of lard for export. The memo had been put on a table with a pile of official releases, in the Department of Agriculture's Washington newsroom, one day last fall. But there was something phony about it: it had none of the usual headings or signatures. When newsmen questioned its authorship, the Department began investigating and finally traced it to a commodity trader named Ralph W. Moore, onetime lobbyist and crony of Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, who also likes to speculate in commodities...