Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrialist Harriman, 51, looked like a good man for the job. Despite his glittering social background Harriman is no playboy. He has worked on a section gang, was a surveyor, once worked as a fireman on the Union Pacific. Now U.P.'s chairman of the board, he is known as one of the most liberal of U.S. industrialists, is also known as a hardheaded businessman who has made (and sometimes lost) millions on flyers...
There was one camp Hope did not get to-so to catch his performance 600 men tramped ten miles across the moors, could not get within earshot, started tramping back again. After the show Hope heard about them, tossed his gang into jeeps, overtook the hikers and, in a drenching downpour, clowned for 40 minutes...
...expect they need kicking sometimes but I don't do it and I don't want my men to do it. ... I have been just as good as possible in the chain gang. . . . It's all a frame-up. There ain't nothing...
...crammed into temporary French prison camps. Later they were packed into filthy freight cars and shipped to Germany. Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs...
Take warning, Harvard! There's only one way to save yourselves. Let's get together and gang up on Princeton...