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Solution. In Tulsa, a runaway bakery horse ignored both the frantic tuggings of its driver and a pursuing cop, was brought to a sudden halt by a bystander, who called out: "Whoa...
...hour of voting drew close. Mead's backers put on the last ounce of pressure. There was a sudden scurry among the potent men behind the platform; Jim Farley rushed up to the stage, button holed Governor Lehman, took him back to the hotel kitchen. There, away from the turmoil, they conferred for ten minutes. Farley bustled into more conferences, with his friend Frank Kelly, with his enemy Ed Flynn. For the first time, Big Jim looked worried...
...Temptingly before the British was the long African coast in Rommel's rear: Spanish Morocco, France's North Africa and Tunis, all of which would raise major diplomatic problems. Italy's Tripoli and Rommel's own Cyrenaica (Bengasi) could be the target of a sudden blow to cut the rear communications of the Afrika Korps...
...April the effort seemed not enough. A sudden thaw set the river ice groaning and cracking like pistol shots. Trucks crossed only in the middle hours of the night. Came a late hard freeze and the last truck was over. Weary drivers looked at the big Peace River and grunted: "Go ahead and bust wide open, you old bastard, we've licked you." The stuff to build the road was through to Fort St. John, to Fort Nelson. But the road was still to be built...
...Senate subcommittee's sudden endorsement of Beardsley Ruml's common-sense plan spelled the end of a fancy retouching job that Treasury's Taxpert Randolph Paul proposed: that relief from taxes due on 1941 incomes be granted only on low-income taxes, leaving high bracketeers with the excellent possibility of owing two years' taxes to be paid from one year's income. If the House still wants a withholding tax, whereby employers deduct tax payments before the pay checks go out, the Ruml plan will make that easier too: there will then be no problem...