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...acre tract near Tulsa that he is turning into a Boy Scout camp. That's not adventure? Well, it is when one considers that Zink is 72 years old, and that he has more than once had to throw himself clear when his huge dozer overturned in the rugged country. "Of course it's dangerous," snorts Zink. "But I haven't any time for country clubs or flitting off to Europe. I'd rather build roads for Boy Scouts. I feel sorry for the lame, the weak, the ill and the stupid; they aren...
Making the rounds one morning, the business manager of a big California daily came upon a pressman snoozing in a corner. It turned out that the dozer had been on the job, or at least on the premises, for 26 straight hours-all but seven at overtime wages. Since there was no apparent reason for the money-wasting marathon, the business manager promptly complained to the shop representative of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. The cold reply: "Well, he needed the money...
RUSSELL S. DOZER Greencastle...
...Sheriff Duncan Harper is too highprincipled to let anything illegal alone. So Bootlegger Tallant fights him. His weapon: Beckwith Dozer, a Negro stubborn enough to demand his "rights" and supple enough to let the embattled white men think they are using him. Tallant intends only to discredit the sheriff by forcing him to defend an "uppity" Negro. But the design gets out of hand when Tallant is shot by a shady associate. Dozer is suspected, and Sheriff Harper, trying to drive Dozer to safety in the next county, is killed when a slashed front tire blows...
...human barricade to stymie a bulldozer sent to flatten the flora on a half-acre dear to the kiddies but now slated to become a parking lot for patrons of the park's fancy-menued Tavern-on-the-Green. The man behind the man who manned the 'dozer: New York City's fireballing, thin-skinned Park Commissioner Robert Moses. He lost no time putting down the citizens' rebellion, had a storm fence thrown up around the disputed territory between one midnight and dawn, glowed next day in victory as the trees began to fall. At week...