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After Hannibal. Teak (for the decks of combat ships, etc.) had a high priority in World War II. It was Elephant Bill Williams' job to get it out. Later, on active duty as a lieutenant colonel, he used the animals to haul bridge timbers and supplies, hoist bogged-down army equipment...
...impounded reservation made a rich haul. Today it includes shale oil beds, vanadium and uranium deposits, 500,000 acres of coalfields, and a big chunk of the Wilson Creek and Rangely oilfields (Rangely's 1949 production: 20 million barrels). The Government promised to pay for all of the Utes' lands, but never got around...
...blood which caked his injured head and chest and a smashed arm suggested he must have been there for hours. No one had time to stop for him. His ox-load of refugee baggage waited patiently. Only the foreigners' influence persuaded a Korean ambulance truck to pause and haul the dying man aboard...
Since mid-February, there had been no rain. The jerky rhythms of the medicine men may have charmed the tourists, but they failed to move the Sky Father. It was costing the Navajos $25,000 a month to haul in enough water to save their 150,000 grazing sheep...
...enemy Japan and that the U.S. give military aid to Chinese Reds, had been sent to Chungking over the signature "Hull," presumably through the maneuverings of State Department men who were giving aid & comfort to China's Communists. A copy of this message was part of the FBI haul. It was among the five documents of which Republicans had caught a scent last week...