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...Youth It Sheltered Me." In sweltering central India, workers who built a railroad spur preserved their shelter from the sun till the last possible moment...
...Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
According to the Russians, they controlled the Germans' only main railways into Stalingrad, and even held a spur running westward from Stalingrad to the Don. The Red Army apparently also held or dominated most of the German highway routes...
...preliminary to draining Steep Rock Lake. Most of its 125 billion gallons of water will then be pumped out, its bottom stripped for open-pit mining. The Canadian Government has already appropriated some $5,000,000 for the erection of power lines and the financing of a railroad spur to lead from Steep Rock to Atikokan, which has rail connections with Lake Superior...
...larger, more elaborate Greenbrier. But the resort continued to be known as The White. The C. & O. bought it, made it into one of the few U.S. luxury resorts to compare with Europe's swankier spas. Its 7,000 acres have three golf courses; there is a spur for private railroad cars, an airport for private planes. For five months, German diplomats and newsmen were quartered there before being exchanged for Americans held in Europe...