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...clock on the morning after Christmas, the women and children of Four-Mile, Ky. began running out of doors. It is not the sort of village in which people ordinarily run-its weathered shacks squat dismally in a muddy hill hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...
...week's end, railroads had just about dug their way out of the piled-up drifts. But the outlook was grim. Hollow-eyed, bone-tired railroaders who paused long enough to look at their calendars found that officially winter was but a few days old. Snow and ice, worst of all their troubles, had just begun...
...over the hard face of the world; and those others, allies and enemies, who had been shattered in life and soul by defeat in war -and some by victory. They also included the wretched who by reason of man's nature and destiny are always among us. The hollow eyes of-the dead, who cannot speak, asked a question: What have you done? The beseeching eyes of the wretched, who cannot be heard, asked a question: What will...
Mistaken for the highest code in the U.S. Intelligence files, CINCRTO dispatched a plane post haste to deliver the vital missive in a hollow bomb. Fortunately, it arrived in time for a wardroom celebration on the last two inches of scotch in the medical officer's stores...
...flying field alongside the Niagara Falls plant of Bell Aircraft Corp., a queer-looking new thing appeared last week. It was Bell's first postwar helicopter, designed for commercial flying. While President Lawrence D. Bell proudly watched, the helicopter rose straight up, swished around the field with a hollow, rattling roar, came down to an eggshell landing...