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Senator Thomas admitted that he had ordered his broker to close out his holdings. But he was not going to let Senator Homer Ferguson's subcommittee haul him up for a public grilling. He would stand on his congressional immunity. "I'm not going to let them make a Roman holiday out of me," he said...
...wasn't. So did many a manufacturer who bought a steel plant and went into the business to make sure he got what he needed. Toward year's end, the steelmakers hedged their arguments and started to spend some $2 billion for expansion. (They also started to haul back desperately needed scrap from Germany and the jungles of Pacific islands.) But few thought the expansion enough to end the great steel shortage which had cut down production all along the line...
Mount Tremblant is a name to make over-the-border enthusiasts glow with respect. But nationalists term it a 4000 foot chair lift haul to the top of trails no better than those to be found at Stowe or Bromley...
...even Bethlehem Steel was sure how much it had bought. It hoped to get 1,000,000 tons, and might get double that, although it would take more than a year to haul that much to the U.S. There were thousands of tons of scrap such as landing mats and vehicles abandoned by the U.S. Army & Navy at war's end. This war surplus property, about an estimated $500,000,000 when it was new, had been turned over to China by the U.S. to pay a $174,000,000 reverse Lend-Lease debt. China had moved some...
...late the men of the Dom Miguel, Rosa Faustina, Salvador and Maria Manuel realized it. Weighed down in their heavy rubber boots, with the waves crashing over them, they tried to haul in their nets. But the nets wrapped themselves around the rudders. Men were swept overboard. The boats drifted about helplessly, within sight of shore. In hundreds of cottages along the coast, people cried out in distress. Women huddled in shawls ran down to the sea. Hours later, the first bodies were washed ashore...