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...HURRICANE'S CHILDREN-Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Collection of 20 freshly-collected U. S. folk tales, interspersed with roaring prose poems, about the tall doings of such giant standbys as Paul Bunyan, such lesser-known U. S. genii as Ichabod Paddock and Kemp Morgan, a Nebraska newcomer named Febold Feboldsen...
...whom he referred was presumably the giant, Antaeus, whom Hercules defeated by lifting him off the ground and strangling him. Even more justifiably, he might have compared himself to a mythical hero with whom his listeners in the Northwest would have been more familiar-the lumberjack giant, Paul Bunyan, who spanned the Rocky Mountains in one stride, left lakes in his footprints and lit his pipe with fir trees...
...President spent a week roving through the vast forests and high mountains of the most heroic terrain in the U. S. as though he had on Bunyan's boots. Bonneville Dam, 170 ft. high, 1,250 ft. long is being built by War Department engineers complete with staircases as well as two electric elevators for traveling salmon...
...Back on the special train, he stopped at Grand Coulee Dam, which will eventually be 550 ft. high, 4,300 ft. long, will cost $181,101,000, (not counting $208,500,000 for irrigation canals),will impound a reservoir almost big enough for Paul Bunyan to bathe in. Said the President: ''My head is full of figures and the easiest way to describe the figures is that this is the largest structure so far as anyone knows that has ever been undertaken...
...fields is the Patoka pool south of Vandalia, where a smart, young Texas company, Adams Oil & Gas, got in first and now has more than half of the 20 producing wells. Richest potential producer is Pure Oil Co., locally known as "The Pure," which brought in the well on Bunyan Travis' farm and now holds oil rights on 282,000 acres...