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...newsboy with an extra. Weary Senators drifted off to doze on black leather couches in corridors or handy offices, leaving a few sentinels to guard the Senate floor. Shortly after 2 a.m., one of Langer's roars, punctuated by a crashing thump of his fist, frightened a sleeping page boy and sent him sprawling off his chair onto the floor...
...auto business, Budd's loss snowballed to $1,785,000. To keep his shopmen busy, Budd began building lightweight railroad passenger cars, using the company's patented "Shotweld" process for joining stainless steel sheets. Roads bought the cars eagerly, but Edward Budd spent money hand over fist experimenting on such products as stainless steel masts for ships...
...longshoremen's demand for a formal endorsement of the U.S. military action in Korea. Bridges' parliamentary tactics stalled a vote on the resolution at the first meeting of Local 10; some of Harry's muscle boys broke up a second meeting with a well-timed fist fight...
...this mean that Argentina would eventually send troops? Well, not quite. But many neutrality-loving Argentines, whose last shooting war* ended in 1870, took it as an urgent invitation to Armageddon. In Buenos Aires, Communist and nationalist street-corner peace meetings drew crowds; fist fights broke out and scores of arrests were made...
...seemed to nod and Benjamin Krieger shrieked: "Then you are the man who killed my brother!" His anguished voice shattered the peaceful pattern of the street. Bearded men turned on the sidewalk and ran back; others rushed out from shops. Benjamin Krieger swung wildly with his fist, and the narrow-faced stranger ran. A yelling crowd of 50 people followed him. The stranger ducked into a religious bookshop and his pursuers began calling, "Lynch him. . . let us have...