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Vermont's mountain winds were harnessed last week to generate electricity for its homes and factories. Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes-the size and shape of a bomber's wings-began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts-enough electricity to light 2,000 homes. Wholly automatic, with its performance recorded by frequent photographs of its dial board, it will produce current about...
...Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath to the satisfaction of the Hays office and the family trade. Soon Producer Zanuck paid more than $200,000 for Tobacco Road, put his Grapes of Wrath crew on the job (Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, Director John Ford), got Charley Grapewin, who played Grandpa Joad in The Grapes, to play the slovenly, bearded farmer jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road...
...time, also, settlements coagulated around the ranches. Corpus Christi grew to 57,000; the Rio Grande Valley, desolate and sandy in Grandpa King's day, bloomed under irrigation; oil towns fed wealth to the cities along the Gulf. But through all Texas' titanic changes, the 1,500 miles of wire fence still surrounded the fiat coastal plains and brush land of the King and Kenedy ranches. The Hug-the-Coast Highway from Houston through Corpus Christi cut straight across country-until it came to the fence at the Kenedy County line. Then it detoured 23 miles west...
...owns Bristol, Pa., for 40-odd years has symbolized in Pennsylvania the well-fed forces of conservatism. Mr. Grundy, 77, still rosy of cheek and twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...
...Garibaldi red shirts were first worn when Grandpa Garibaldi's independence fighters in Uruguay uniformed themselves in a supply of slaughterhouse workers' blouses...