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...burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
...tobacco auction, where, he charged, Big Three operations deprive the individual farmer of all bargaining power. When 1,602,000 farmers bring their produce to the warehouses, Big Three buyers snap up two-thirds to three-fourths of all their burley tobacco, 30-40% of all their flue-cured crop (the rest being mainly exported). In any given auction, said the Government, Big Three buyers fail to bid seriously against each other (though no one will attend a market unless the other two are there). In some cases, they walk ahead of the auctioneer, are awarded their chosen baskets...
Ezion-geber's site shows Solomon at his wisest. He had it put at the one place where strong, steady winds from the north could fan the flames in its furnaces (whose flue-holes and air-channels utilized the principle of the blast furnace nearly 3,000 years before Bessemer), blow the smoke and fumes...
Last week the market went vertical with a bang down. Its forecast changed from ''the same" to "civilization is going up the flue with The Netherlands and Belgium." To the average U. S. market fan, who starts and stops major swings, this translated itself into an imperative desire for cash. The scramble to liquidate stocks resulted in the sale of 17,000,000 shares last week, 11,500,000 more than War ll's 36 weeks' average. Prices dropped from 144.85 to 128.27 in the first two days...
While cleaning out a clogged fireplace in Hollis 31 yesterday, three maintenance men came upon a cache of unexploded World War bullets located part way up the flue...