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...brought powder and shot, in which it had been captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Boys in Blue. There was a Wells-Fargo express stagecoach which had once carried gold-dust from the San Francisco mining camps. There were, great behemoths, now in use to pull freight or passengers; G-3-d engines, the most powerful in use on the Canadian Pacific; the John B. Jervis, new Delaware & Hudson locomotive, using the new water-tube boiler system, weighing 314 tons, the King George V (biggest locomotive in the British Empire), sent down from Canada for the show...
Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, his blocky face no longer furrowed with anxiety, returned again last week to Washington from the Mississippi Basin. Presenting himself to President Coolidge, he reported the extent to which 614,000 people in 120 counties had been helped to pull themselves out of the mud of the worst flood in U. S. history...
...first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them go, and they work out their own destiny. I simply pull the strings. Soon, the first thing I know, I have another book ready for my publishers. It's great fun, really...
...more about rubber than Edison." Said Mr. Edison of the Dutch East Indies report: "There is no doubt that the method will greatly increase output as well as cheapen it. ... I am not working to cheapen rubber. ... I believe enough rubber can be grown in the U. S. to. pull us through [in case of war]. The price is not serious in such a case...
...they would make a pencil of glass 63 miles high." They contained sufficient drink "to supply every man, woman and child in Oregon with a glassful." The glassful would be cold, for the freight cars were refrigerated. They made up "the first solid train of trademarked merchandise ever to pull out of New England...