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...counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...
...Amarillo, Tex., similar sounds were heard. As the murals for the Amarillo post office took shape, Texas cowhands said some mighty sharp things about WPAinter Julius Woeltz. Artist Woeltz had painted cowboys loading unbranded cattle into a boxcar, had left out a shipping pen (cattle are never loaded from the open range), showed a lasso dangling from the wrong side of a saddle. His most glaring mistake was substitution of English-style saddles for Western. Said a bystander: "You couldn't never git a cowboy on one of them postage-stamp things...
...boss, purposeful K. T. Keller was a high-school boy in Mount Joy, Pa. Symbol of Walter Chrysler's youthful irresponsibility was his big silver-plated tuba, which he played in roundhouse bands, shipped from town to town in friendly cabooses while he rode up ahead in a boxcar with the hoboes. Mark of K. T. Keller's determination to go places was his position at the top of the Mount Joy High School graduating class...
...Railroad in Kansas City back in 1873. Learning telegraphy in his spare time, he was a full-fledged operator at 14, a combined telegrapher and brakeman on the Santa Fe three years later. For the next 50 years he was shunted from line to line like a boxcar in a busy season. He saw hard living in Kansas cow towns, hard drinking at Northwest division points, hard work everywhere. Last week his son, a brakeman himself, offered Harry French's biography as a typical story of a last-generation American workman...
...keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed to civilization before moving him. At last, late this May, the Buta okapi boarded a side-wheel steamer at Stanleyville and started down the Congo River. At Leopoldville, where the rapids begin, he was shuttled into a boxcar, and at Matadi, at the mouth of the Congo, on July i went aboard a Dutch ship bound for Antwerp...