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...truck mine operator in Floyd County described the closing of his mine: "They all came up the gulch, about 200 of them, yelling about how they were going to blow up the mine if I didn't shut down." As the picketers approached, he took his rifle and climbed on top of a hill looking over the valley and told the men to stop where they were. "The next man that takes a step," he shouted, "well right there you'll find him." His men, worried about personal attacks, walked off the job the next day, however...
Barcelona was in the path of a tornado. As the sky opened, every sun-baked gulch became a torrent. The dust-dry beds of the rivers on either side of Barcelona carried floods 75 ft. wide. Debris piled up against bridges and then the bridges plunged downstream. A 6-ft. wall of water smashed into the crowded industrial suburbs and carried all before it: hundreds of rubble-brick houses, telephone poles, autos. horses and wagons, people. Sixteen gypsies encamped under a bridge were swept clean away...
bluntly lectured a Washington conclave of U.S. broadcasters on the consequences of exporting nothing but "the ideals of Tombstone and Deadman's Gulch." Said Greene: "History has known few nobler or more selfless actions than the generosity which America has shown to other nations during the last 20 years...
...president or vice president of the company he works for. In Massachusetts alone, 75 companies have been founded by M.I.T. graduates. The electronics industry, which far exceeds waning textiles as Massachusetts' biggest industry, got much of its basic vitality from M.I.T. U.S. Route 128, familiarly known as "Electronics Gulch," is lined with companies headed and staffed by M.I.T. graduates and professors...
Drear lads, I've never been a cop hater. Too small a role. But one is not a cop lover, for that is cancer gulch...