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Threat of Flood. The Hwachon dam, 275 ft. high and Korea's third largest, lies at the end of a spit of land shaped like a camel's head, between the western arm of the reservoir and a bend of the Pukhan River. U.S. officers knew that if the Chinese opened the dam's 18 sluice gates simultaneously, they would create a bothersome flood in the Pukhan valley; if they shattered the dam with explosives, a terrible wall of water, 50 to 60 ft. high, would plunge down the valley and cut the U.N. line...
...muscled in by the simple method of eliminating the previous owner, James Ragen. In 1946, Ragen told police that if he was killed, the men responsible would be Tony Accardo, Jake Guzik, and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Ragen was shot down in a noisy ambush on a South Side Chicago corner in 1946, then poisoned in his hospital bed when he showed signs of recovering from his wounds. "After his death," concluded the committee, "the mob took over and that was that...
...LAND OF THE CAMEL (200 pp.)-Schuyler Cammann-Ronald Press...
...Real America? Schuyler Cammann travels in the tradition of the scholar-adventurer, and his book, The Land of the Camel, cleaves to the best in its tradition (truthfulness, a sense of moral involvement, good humor) while shunning the worst (bad writing, political or sectarian tirade, excessive footnotarianism...
...operations for ten years before the war. His biggest job as president will be to pep up Chesterfield's sales. Last year Chesterfield sales dropped slightly from $67.5 million in 1949 to $66 million. With 18% of the cigarette market, v. 22.6% for Lucky Strike and 26.9% for Camel, Chesterfield is third in the industry...