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While the rest of Venezuela battened on oil, the cattlemen struggled with the legacy of civil wars, a virulent malaria known as la fiebre económica (Venezuelans quip that if it hits in the morning, your only expense is a coffin at night) and the 27-year exploitation of Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gómez. Their worst headache: the senseless three-to-four-week trek to Gómez's slaughterhouse near the coast (over 20% of the cattle's weight was lost...
Then a heavy lead "coffin" rolled up the wall. Into it dropped an aluminum can to be taken to "hot cells" with yard-thick concrete walls. There, working with periscopes and tools which reached around corners, chemists would extract the isotopes it contained. All workers wore loose canvas covers over their shoes so that no "hot" particle could lodge in the leather and gnaw a dangerous lesion in their feet. The laboratory tables were topped with three-inch slabs of lead. Neatly stacked lead bricks gave additional protection to workers...
...arrest gave Cheyenne and Denver cattle barons a bad turn. They retained a batch of lawyers to defend him, appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, and when all else failed, sent him off to the Boulder Cemetery in a high-priced white-satin-and-silver coffin. Author Monaghan knows the Tom Horn country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting Tom Horn material for 20 or 30 years. A number of other writers, including Struthers Burt and Gene Fowler, have had their say about Tom. Last...
...Parkman Coffin...
Gallant Undertaking. In St. Paul, Willard Edward Graves and Mary Louise Coffin announced plans...