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Land of Plenty. The hills themselves had nearly everything Gil wanted-pickerel and bass and trout, possums and red deer, yarbs for medicine. Gil only needed a few dollars now & then for tobacco, salt, flour. In the old days, it was easy to make a few dollars. All he had to do was cut a little hard maple, sell it as fuel for the brick kilns at Haverstraw. Even the locomotives on the Erie Railroad burned wood for a long time. But all that gave...
...found that these young Nepalese have clear ideas about what they want to do, are keen to modernize Nepal, but do not want to hurry. Their plan now is to sell a modest amount of jute, linseed, probably drugs and some musk (the perfume-producing sac of the musk deer). In that way, they would create a small dollar balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting possible sites for hydroelectric power, furnishing some machinery for mills in the Nepal lowlands. They also talked...
...heavy and oppressive over the flat, treeless prairies of the Texas Panhandle. It was getting on toward supper time. In the little town of White Deer (pop. 500), Stockman H. W. Holmes stood in his front yard, uneasy in the muggy closeness. Suddenly, in the lowering clouds to the west, he saw a black, towering funnel, wavering, twisting, clutching at the earth. There was a deep-toned rumble "like a fast freight train." Said Holmes: "It hit an oncoming freight train just outside of town, and they tell me that 19 cars and two cabooses went off the rails...
...house lifted into the air, "hung there, and shook like a fish net being dipped out of water." Then the funnel lifted, and roared off to the northeast. White Deer had been lucky; only three were injured...
...twister roared on, destroying 35 houses in Whitehorse, Okla. Then it split up into smaller storms that skittered off into Kansas. From White Deer to Whitehorse it had cut a swath 1½ miles wide (the widest* tornado in U.S. history), and marked its trail with 155 counted dead...