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Then 100 firms cooperate with the propram in placing the girls temporarily. Trainees are sent to a variety of enterprises including the American Thread Company, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Broadcasting Company, and the Central National Bank of Cleveland...
...roadside waiting to take care of what they thought was a Red advance, recognized his vehicles. Baker had led a dash of 106.4 miles in eleven hours, had tied the U.N. advance from the south with U.S. troops in the north. It was a slender thread soon to become a mighty noose around 50,000 enemy troops...
...equipment consisted of a 20-year-old oak rod, an 18-year-old reel and a 36-thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
...hundred miles from Dublin, and the next morning, half-dressed, badly in need of a pickup, lectures the peasantry in the bar on gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other village boys...
...Australia and Africa there are spiders that catch their victims by a sort of combination lasso and harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...