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...between, the noise quotient would abash a pneumatic drill. Unfortunately, some of the lines can still be heard. Sample gag-Daughter: "Daddy, if there's one thing I'd never do, it's drink." Father: "Just wait till you have a daughter like you, YOU'LL DRINK...
Today, the slump is being dramatically reversed. The steel industry has devised a way to drill the once useless taconite with 4,300° jet flames. Machines then crush the ore, magnetize it and roll it into pea-sized pellets that are then baked to produce a product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment...
...head when a car slipped off a jack, but he did not become unconscious or even dizzy, went right back at work underneath the car. That evening he lost his dinner and seemed dazed. At the hospital, no mark was found on the skull, so surgeons had to drill holes in it and search for the trouble. They discovered a mass of blood and drained it. The mechanic eventually recovered his mental alertness but, four years later, he still has only limited use of his right...
...Center at the University of Illinois, doesn't mean just a little isometrics or a weekend round of golf. He preaches a strenuous program of daily workouts, which includes two miles of walking and running, 20-mile hikes, cold baths and towel rubs, plus an increasingly difficult calisthenics drill...
Instead, modern language teachers must drill, drill, drill, orally and in the foreign language, too. But they must vary the drills, Stein thinks; a single technique will reduce in effectiveness after about 20 minutes...