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...their doorstep. One night Editor Rose got routed out of bed by Screenwriter Les River, who wailed that an automobile had killed his cat, leaving her four nursing kittens starving. Rose found a foster mother. Now the cat-loving James Masons oblige in such emergencies. When the noise of gravel trucks disturbed the home rehearsals of Cinemactress Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton), Rose persuaded the truckers to change their hours. In last week's storm, the Crier sprang into action, helped to set up an aid station complete with registered nurse and hot coffee, organized work crews...
...story skyscraper made quite a crown for the empire-building son of a Lithuanian suspenders-maker. Crown, who was born in Chicago, started out 32 years ago in the sand and gravel business. His Material Service Corp. now grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never heard of Crown until three years ago, when he and three associates bought working control (25%) of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949). He has also supplied much of the money behind Hotelman Conrad Hilton's buying ventures, is now the biggest stockholder (8.7%) after Hilton...
...toot of a motor horn, the prospectors stormed Nooitgedacht, began pegging out their 45-foot-square claims. The Negro laborers shoveled furiously through three or four feet of clay to a layer of gravel which the prospectors scooped up, rocked in hand sieves and dumped on sorting tables. The diggers (who will pay De Beers 10% of their finds) were a mixed lot. Among them were a monocled Scot known as "Donal the Duke"; bearded, Bible-carrying "Uncle Pete the Sky Pilot," and big, burly, sombrero-wearing Jacob Venter, 51, who has spent half his life looking for diamonds...
...places where dowsers thrive, says Riddick, there is water almost everywhere. It does not exist as "veins" but in saturated sand or gravel called the "water table." Certain special conditions, such as sand so fine that it cannot be filtered, or hard rock near the surface, make well-digging undesirable. A dowser who is worth his salt can avoid such hostile spots without magical assistance. Anywhere else, he is almost sure to find at least a little water...
...workers stripped the armor from destroyed allied and Communist tanks to use as bearing plates, delivered 400 tons of gravel to the bridge site, and dredged 500 tons of sand from the Naktong to make sandbags. For more than two months the work went on, at night under the light of powerful searchlights supplied by Tandy's engineers...