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...thought the madder I got because I needed my keys about unlockin' things. Here I was unable to get into my place without crawlin' in the window. I lived there and I had a right nice place. I had me a hot plate and as good a blanket as you ever...
...biggest business in New Jersey, and one of the biggest & best-run in the world, is Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Built by famed Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, this $700,000,000 utilities holding company, whose wires, pipes and transit lines blanket the nation's sixth richest manufacturing State, has small trouble with its legislators and public utilities commissioners. It bumped into trouble eight years ago, however, when it set out to run a high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission...
...television trouble in the U. S., where radio is in corporate hands, is the problem of distance. For clear reception ultrashort waves (one to nine metres) are required, and these have ranges of only 25 to 50 miles, depending on the height of the broadcasting tower. To blanket the whole country would require a network of stations estimated to cost between...
...around. Below, ringed by 100,000 spectators, of whom some 200 fainted during the long wait before the services began, lay a great bright field of floral tributes: little bunches of daisies from up-country folk, every one of whom Huey Long had promised to make a king; a blanket of red & white roses from his colleagues in the U. S. Senate, whom he had harassed so long; orchids and lilies of the valley from the Louisiana Legislature, which had done its boss's bidding even after death...
...their feet blistered, their lips cracked, their tongues swollen. Often crossing their own footprints, they realized they were circling hopelessly. At last, completely exhausted, they lay down beside a dry mudhole to await their fate. There last week a searching airplane pilot finally spied little Agnes feebly waving a blanket...