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...With cheap (gun) powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes (to the President) will be not 'Boom' but 'Swoosh...
...Rock and had wandered down the mountainside. They learned that his car was still parked near Mazama Lodge, that he had not reported for work Monday morning. Next day the Mazama Club trudged up Mt. Hood again with little hope of finding Russell Gueffroy-under 19 inches of fresh powder snow...
...Department last year spent $124,500-$96,000 over its appropriation for this purpose-on gunpowder used in salutes to the President and other dignitaries. Paring expenses, the Department last week announced that official salutes henceforth would be fired by inferior powder, thus cutting the cost of a 21-gun salute from $62.37 to $28.35. With cheap powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes will be not "Boom" but "Swoosh...
...woman's powder puff run by a small electric motor...
...worked in shifts like mine rescuers. They blasted and dug, encouraged during the first ten days by feeble, subterranean barking. By night bonfires lit their labor; by day they gulped neighbors' sandwiches and coffee. When they had used their no sticks of dynamite, they blasted with loose black powder. On the eleventh day, just after lunch, a cheer went up from the 100 Farleyites who had gathered to watch. For Spotty's spotted body had been reached, thinned by nearly half its previous weight, but still alive & sound...