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Deputy Sheriff Elmer Craig was badly shot while trying to crawl away from the wrecked automobile. "Shall I let him have it?" asked one of Brady's men. "Nah," snarled Brady...
...Great Lakes navigation under Business & Finance in TIME, April 26, but take exception to your description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling innovations have been installed since I left the Great Lakes region...
...Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with its paws stretched forward dog fashion, refused to frolic with its litter mates...
...quintuplets do upon rising with a cheery smile is to--(pause; here the audience should laugh, not altogether but separate, raucous laughs in various parts of the theatre) wash their hands and face. Notice, mothers, how they brush their own teeth themselves. Before, you have seen the girls crawl, walk, and gibber but never talk; now for the first time Emilie, who is squeezing the toothpaste over the nurse's dress, will say "Mais oui' in French...
...colossal efficiency of the steel industry in handling brutal mass begins at its source. From the time iron ore is dug from the mines it scarcely stops moving till it reaches the blast furnaces in Gary or Pittsburgh. Along spurs of no fewer than nine railroads, box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports, roll on high trestles to the loading docks, which are anywhere from a sixth to a half-mile long. There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers from which the ore spouts into...