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Tree Crasher. A giant 60-ton bulldozer strong enough to push a weight equal to 75 passenger cars has been built by R. G. Le Tourneau Inc. for the Handley Construction Co., which will use it to uproot trees and underbrush along the Georgia-Florida coastal area. The Tree Crasher, 39 ft. long and 11 ft. high, smashes through jungles on six huge rubber-tired wheels 4 ft. wide and 10 ft. tall, each powered by its own electric motor. The motors, in turn, are powered by two diesel generators near the center of the unit...
Faced with that threat, Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, Jenner's key lieutenant in Indiana, decided that he would issue an ultimatum of his own. He had an antique mantel clock placed on his desk at the front of the senate chamber and announced that he was going to end the session exactly at midnight on the 61st day. If no budget bill had been passed and the Craig administration had no money, that would be just...
Across the State Capitol rotunda, in the house of representatives, Speaker George Diener, a Craig man, was ready with some tricks of his own. He was holding several passed bills that would not become law unless he signed them before the assembly adjourned. If Handley adjourned the senate at midnight, before the budget battle was settled, the Diener-held bills (including a politically potent bonus for Korean war veterans) would be void...
...Face-Saving Cream." Finally, at five minutes before midnight, Lieutenant Governor Handley backed down, turned the mantel clock around so that it faced him; he then stopped the senate's official electric clock. As the overtime hours wore on, the conference committee members wearied of the stalemate, and the Jenner legislators finally capitulated: they agreed to accept a compromise provision that no state funds could be spent on roads that would serve "only" as feeders for toll roads. This was such a minor limitation that jubilant Craig men talked of sending down to the drugstore to get some "face...
Eventually, the Craig forces had to let a toll-road restriction bill pass the senate. But it was watered down to a thinness almost acceptable to the Craig administration. Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, the key Jenner lieutenant, complaining that his forces should have been rougher in the fight, cracked: "But, you know how it is; there are always a few boys who don't really know the score, and so they want to be fair...