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...tanks and stacks-and with miles of great oil refineries, tank farms and factories. The combined Gulf ports handle more export tonnage than New York. Texas produces 80% of U.S. sulphur, almost half of its natural gas, and a lion's share of that Texas delicacy, chili powder. Texans make B-36 bombers in the Consolidated Vultee
Skiing conditions throughout New England are fair to poor with only three resorts reporting good or excellent skiing. Bridgton, Maine, reports a total of 7 to 15 inches of snow with a four inch powder surface. Skiing, Bridgton claims, is good to excellent...
Jackson, New Hampshire, with a seven to 15 inch total and five inches of surface powder, reports that skiing is fair to good, while North Conway has a three to ten inch base with a five inch powder, and skiing there is also reported as fair to good. Snow conditions for Vermont are for the most part poor, although Woodstock reports good skiing on the upper and lower trials and conditions at Stowe are fair...
...countryside might see, Il Corsaro trundled the cannon home in a handcart, and received a hero's welcome: a supper of lasagna, tortellini, young kid, pork and chicken, topped off by a demijohn of wine. Next day, he loaded the cannon with a double charge of powder, and fired it in the direction of Spilamberto. Unfortunately, the heavy charge split the breech...
...noise. Trains, buses, autos and old-style ox wagons poured 250,000 South Africans onto the scene. A city of 5,000 tents had been built to shelter part of the crowd. Many were dressed in Voortrekker garb-the men in cowhide or corduroys, with feathered slouch hats, powder horns, and bushy beards which they had carefully grown during the past year; the women in flowing dresses and tight kappies (sunbonnets...