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...wide, sunk 30 ft. into the earth, its walls 6 ft. thick and impervious to heaviest shell fire, is not invulnerable. It must somehow be anchored. When repeated high-explosive blasts have blown the earth off its top and away from its footings, further blasts may get under and rock the blockhouse bodily, tilt it out of alignment so that its guns within-carefully adjusted to cover precisely plotted areas of fire-can no longer be trained where they are needed...
...depression-reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau when he went home from revival...
While guests at Juan-les-Pins bathed in her great pool cut out of solid rock, or slid down a long chute into the Mediterranean, Maxine Elliott, no longer beautiful, played with her famed monkey Kiki, ate whole chocolate layer cakes for lunch. She grew, old there, and monstrous fat. There, last week, she died...
...small town U. S. family, named Hardy, whose ups and downs were intended to rouse no deeper emotion in theatre-goers than a tender smile through a film of happy tears. MGM proposed to turn Skidding, with title changed to A Family Affair, into a picture on a rock-bottom budget of less than...
Charley Lutz was the evening's high scorer with 14 points, scored on six field goals and two fouls. Hen Soleliac and Bill Rock followed with 13 and 11. Ed Rothschild, Crimson center, shone on the defense as well as scoring five points...