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...plane. Being U.S. citizens, they beat at no immigration bars, never had their pictures taken in colorful native costume behind the wire enclosures of Ellis Island. They simply seeped in, landing by 20s and 30s from battered planes at La Guardia field, Teterboro and Newark, suddenly appearing beside their cardboard suitcases on the city's sidewalks outside a hole-in-the-wall travel agency...
...gutter. A honking car scatters a game of stick ball in the street. On the corner, a cart vendor sells piraguas (shaved ice flavored with colored sirup) for 3? a cup. An old woman scrambles on her hands & knees under a horse-drawn cart, scooping fresh manure into a cardboard...
...switch at almost 30 m.p.h., swerved across the street to the left, and crashed into .the big grey tanks behind Trucker Wilson's cab. They ripped open like cardboard. Gasoline cascaded out, and caught fire almost instantly with a soft, terrible, thudding sound...
With Duff a pre-election favorite, the crucial fight was for the governorship with its control of 40,000 state jobs. Judge Fine, longtime boss of Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre), was heavily attacked by Grundymen who called him "a cardboard candidate," "Little Sir Echo," and a "political judge" who winked at gambling. Grundy set out a bait for undecided voters by backing retired Philadelphia Banker Jay Cooke, who insisted he was an independent. Duff met the challenge headon. "Cooke is no more independent of the old guard than the thumb on Grundy's right hand," snorted Duff. "I would...
...Medical Manufacturing Shop attached to the First Moscow Psychiatric Hospital "will make cardboard boxes for shoestores, drugstores, etc." But the buyer must supply the cardboard...