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...boss's house. How was Euclides to know that the pilot was merely trying to get the boss's daughter to come out of the house so he could drop her a love letter? Euclides got mad. Fed up with all flat-hatters, he rushed from the barn. Next time the plane came round for a low, slow buzz, he swung his trusty leather laço-and lassoed the plane's propeller...
...daughter. She, in turn, tearfully pleaded that she had lost them. The sergeant in charge of the G.R.S. searchers had run into such situations before. He produced a dozen candy bars and the little Korean girl dug up the missing dog tags from a cranny of the mud-walled barn...
...unemployed), but output per man shift is 30% lower than it was prewar. A fourth of the Ruhr miners' homes were destroyed during the war. Today one in every ten miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when...
Locking the barn after the horse had been bought, District Judge Elmer Adams gave Clark custody of his two oldest children, ordered him to give his ex-wife $50 a month for the support of the others. John Clark, who has remarried and gone back to the junk yard at $43 a week, had had about enough of officialdom. He would go to jail, he declared, rather than pay the court's assessments...
...Venturi tubes. Toward the back of each wing he mounted an engine, its propeller tips just clearing the curve of the trailing edge. If his calculations were correct, when the spinning props sucked air through the U-shaped channels, Custer's plane would fly-like that West Virginia barn roof a quarter-century before...