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Escape from Man. In the beginning, the rabbit in the hutch, the domestic pigeon, the hearth cat and the farm dog all agree that freedom, especially freedom from man, will bring total happiness. They escape to the forest, but as time goes on, their happiness wears thin. It is the rabbit that gives words to the principle which ultimately wins them all and becomes a rumor in the forest: renunciation of self, even of personal freedom and of life if necessary, to help establish "that law of love which should govern all the world, prevent it from shriveling like...
...door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes and no sprinkler system, was roaring like an open hearth...
From one of the great open-hearth furnaces poured a molten white stream-steel. The rolling mill clanked out the first structural shapes. A white-clad band struck up the national anthem. The Volta Redonda steel plant (not far from Rio de Janeiro), the most impressive industrial sight in Latin America, was officially in operation. Brazil's dream of industrial self-sufficiency was being realized...
...finished off the drink, and taking a long drag from his cigarette, casually flipped it into the fire place. It missed. He picked it up and tried again. The butt looped neatly into the shadows of the hearth, and Vag, following his reflected image in the glass, turned on a well-worn heel and sauntered over to his desk...
...there was trouble ahead. A shortage in freight cars was already pinching production. Last week Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had to close down six open-hearth furnaces; the Carnegie plant at Gary, Ind. had 14,000 tons of finished steel waiting to be shipped. Reason for the car shortage: 1) the roads have 33,000 fewer cars than last year and, afraid of overbuying, have not placed enough orders to fill the gap; 2) freight car builders, hobbled by the steel strike, turned out only a piddling 14,282 cars in the first half of 1946. With steel mills cutting...