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...road was ready. Engineers plotted the course for them, along mountain ledges, through deep swamps, or into the beds of wild mountain rivers as much as half a mile wide. In such terrain the automatic ditching machines used on other pipeline projects were practically useless. It took blasting powder to cut through the rocks, steam shovels to ladle away the quicksands of the swamps, and three-ton concrete clamps to hold the pipe in place in the river currents...
...everyone appreciated young Manning's independence and way of doing things. He was fired off the famed Leviathan (nee Vaterland) after a year at cross-purposes with the captain; on one ship, the stewards tried to poison him by dumping roach powder in his coffee. Says Manning: "I was an awful son of a bitch in those days." His hands still bear the scars of knives wielded by a stowaway and what Manning calls "various obstreperous members of the crew...
...great train wreck. Two old belly-chimneyed, smugde puffing rail riders came at each other on a narrow guage track, and with the help of some well-placed blasting powder, blew their red and gold gothic hot boxes over half an acre of mountain scenery. It was a magnificent thing to behold. It would have been even more satisfying had it come at the beginning of the picture, with the whole cast aboard...
...some foreign matter. The Chemico method, using ammonia or acid, dissolves this concentrate in an "autoclave," similar to a huge pressure cooker. The resulting ore-bearing liquid is piped through a filter into another pressure vessel, where terrific heat and force precipitate the pure metal as a fine powder...
...school, Dick's marks were only fair. He went to Gordon Military College at Barnesville, Ga., and to the State A. & M. school at Powder Springs, where board was $6.40 a month and each student did 36 hours' work every month. At the University of Georgia, he was both a serious student and a cheerleader, but no campus politician. After he got his law degree in 1918, he did a short stint in the Naval Reserve, then returned to Winder and hung out his shingle...