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...coal-diggers' tragedies, one laid in England and one in Illinois, gave strong evidence of the fascination that the subterranean life exerts on the imaginations of men who spend their days above ground. Both books are packed with information on the technical details of coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin's account of similar disasters beneath...
Supreme over all London's buses, coaches, trams, suburban & underground railways is the London Passenger Transport Board of seven. Created in 1933, it is a Government bureau in charge of coordinating all London transport lines within 30 miles of Charing Cross, has power over salaries, equipment, elimination of unneeded competition, establishment of new routes, etc., but leaves the actual management in private hands. Since the companies under its control gain cheap credit, stability, and profits proportionate to their value, the Board has been universally welcomed...
Thereafter, day after day for months and years, long queues of worshipful believers in Communism and curious infidels moved slowly through the doorway, flanked by two immobile guards, down a narrow passage to an underground room, through heavy air that muffled footfalls, discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure...
...detachment of motorized cavalry. The three Christie tanks, eleven-ton monsters, were capable of traveling 60 m.p.h. on roads, 30 m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great underground vaults in which to store gold bullion) consisted of two fully armored, five-ton, six-wheeled cars, two "half tracks" (semi-caterpillars), a rolling kitchen capable of preparing meals at 40 m.p.h., a motorcycle and sidecar and a baggage truck...
...living in a snow hut with his lovely daughter Tanya (Helen Mack). Next they find old John Vincey's body sealed in a glacier, like a lamb chop in aspic. Hacking at the glacier the fur trader starts an avalanche. The avalanche opens up the entrance to an underground kingdom where Leo, his associate and Tanya are assaulted by cannibals, lugged off in time's nick to a porphyry castle, where a queen named She (Helen Gahagan) mistakes Leo Vincey for his ancestor, explains that she has been in love with him for 500 years. The hospitality...