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...engineers began pulling out the twisted bridge section while the tank company held a roll call in the cornfield. Six men were missing. Said a hard-as-steel, greasy young man leaning against his tank: "They was good guys...
...Cornfield Observatories. One outstanding amateur astronomer is Leslie Peltier, an Ohio draftsman, whose little observatory stands in his father's cornfield. He is such an able observer that professionals look to him as the No. 1 U.S. comet tailer, and both Harvard and Princeton have lent him instruments. Inspecting the whole sky piece by piece each month, Peltier has discovered seven comets, which are named after...
...raft capsized once more. "For the first time," Dixon said, "I was ready to give up." His nerves were so frayed that he flew into violent rages. But Aldrich and Pastula only stared at him. Then came the 34th day and Aldrich shouted: "Chief, I see a beautiful cornfield...
...outward evidences of that change. From 9 in the morning until dusk they raced from plant to plant in cars that moved at 70 m.p.h. They grabbed lunch on the way from the tank arsenal to the River Rouge plant. They saw, on the outskirts of Detroit, where a cornfield flourished a few months ago, a tank factory where huge sections of armor plate and steel castings moved down a production line five miles long...
Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller, daughter of ex-Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Husband Maxwell Miller bought three acres of Illinois cornfield and two refrigerator cars, planned to set the cars in the cornfields and move in by Christmas...