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...will mean a certain restraint on certain people! We do not want war-but we are oxen, with the yoke around our necks-dreading to be led to a second slaughter." Portugal, too. . . . We drove over the side of a precipice in the fog-only a small rock had saved our car from rolling down the mountainside. In the pitch blackness, a crew of ten workingmen struggled to save our car from destruction, risking their necks on the slippery slope where, at any time, the car might have rolled over on them. Their work triumphantly finished, they refused to accept...
...Foundry Co.) has zoomed to 125 a month; both divisions by last week had more than their allotted complement. But for the missing mediums they used old, twin-turreted crocks ("Mae Wests" to their crews). Production of the real thing is lagging at the Army's Rock Island (Ill.) Arsenal. Chrysler Corp. also has an order for medium tanks, has had to postpone its first delivery date from next March to next September...
...Little Rock, Ark., a Negro mother named her triplets "Gone," "With" and "Wind...
Married. Gerald P. Nye, 48 (this week), North Dakota's recently divorced isolationist junior Senator; and Marguerite Johnson, 32, Rock Island. Ill. high-school teacher; at Iowa Falls. Iowa. They first met in Estes Park, Colo., when the Senator climbed out of his car to help Miss Johnson repair a tire...
...probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic...