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...most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above his boy's head, above the sooty fog, shine out the stars; but these he cannot eat, and barely...
...arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...provide a background for Colman's savoir faire, Hecht & MacArthur made him a patrician burglar seeking what seems a most unlikely sanctuary in a ruined castle on the Algerian desert. He reaches this stronghold by making off with a fancy auto in which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with...
...Farmer Price uses 25 combines, all painted a glittering silver and labelled HICKMAN PRICE. Fifty tractors do the heavy hauling. A crew of 250, including mechanics and factory "troubleshooters" keep this mechanical army moving by day, cleaned, serviced, repaired by night. Their sleeping quarters are wheeled about with them from one section of the farm to another. Five motorcycles carry special messengers back and forth across the miles of wheat land with reports to Mr. Price on the progress of the harvest. One hundred trucks haul the wheat to Kress where Mr. Price sells it direct to the big city...