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...including 40 self-propelled Budd cars (the largest U.S. fleet), 362 new diesel-electric locomotives. Piggyback cars for carrying trucks have been increased until they produce $2,000,000 in revenue each year (100 more, plus 115 air-conditioned passenger cars are on order for 1954), and Dumaine has torn up 340 miles of track no longer needed and rebuilt 400 miles of roadbed at a cost of $10,000,000. Says he: "You must spend money to make money...
...bright young man permits his wife to support him, but has to pay her so much attention in return that he is driven from keyboard to bar. In the end, of course. Actress Taylor sees the error of her ways and builds up the husband she has torn down, just in time for a gigantic Rachmaninoff rag at the finale...
...Hartmann, more faith in him than in any of the boys." Few connoisseurs today would show such faith in Sadakichi's poems, e.g., the couplets that Biographer Fowler uses as chapter headings. Samples: "I made a bed of sun and sand / Beside some vanished stream"; "In this torn sea of arabesques / Looms there no isle of peace?" Nonetheless, this kind of thing, plus two art books and a blasphemous play about Christ that was banned in Boston, was enough to make Sadakichi the king of Greenwich Village at the turn of the century...
...Devised in 1935 by a German immigrant farmer named Fred Hoeme after he discovered that an area of his Oklahoma dust-bowl farm which had been torn by some heavy road machinery was the only section on which he could grow a crop...
...suburban Teheran. To the full-bearded, pajama-clad man who answered, he said: "Your time is up. Get ready to move." The man in hiding was Hussein Fatemi, the hated and long sought No. 2 man and Foreign Minister in the Mossadegh regime. Fatemi had been variously reported as torn to pieces by the Teheran mobs last August, or in hiding in Cairo, Berlin, the Iranian hills. Fatemi was hauled off to jail, but on the way he was stabbed superficially by someone in a howling street mob. The government reported Fatemi would stand trial for treason against the Shah...