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...worth of houses a year by pricing their houses about $1,000 less than their competitors. Like other big builders, they trimmed construction costs by doing their own concrete and roadwork, are always alert to save even pennies; recently they saved 45^ a house by rerouting an electrical conduit...
...tobacco-curing sheds, warehouses with $2,500,000 worth of sugar. A train was derailed. And, in one explosive day, President Fulgencio Batista's troops fought two separate battles against rebel forces in the eastern province of Oriente just as a bomb blast in a main electric cable conduit paralyzed downtown Havana...
...front page shows this the most. The test of the energy and ambition of any college newspaper is in its front page right-hand column: the lead story. To fill that column the easy way, a paper has merely to act as a conduit for the University News Office. Indeed, at some universities, (though not Yale), Administration censorship makes this the only way. The hard way is to dig up news independently, news which may embarrass university departments or student organizations, but for that very reason serves to dissuade these groups from making mistakes or acting arbitrarily. In the world...
...queens builds her nest in the hold of a freighter, but is destroyed when the ship is sunk by naval gunfire. When the other and her brood are traced to the 700 miles of sewer conduit that crisscross beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, martial law is declared, and a jeep-borne army contingent roars in to wipe the things...
...reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs, $680 million for the conduit and pumping lifts, $50 million for irrigation...