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...citizens of Phoenixville, Pa. (four miles from Valley Forge) hadn't known such hoopla since the Revolution, when British soldiers pushed as far west as Phoenixville. The town is Big Inch's eastern junction; two pipelines, still uncompleted, will push their separate ways on to Philadelphia, 30 miles away, and Bayway, N.J., 92 miles...
...Canada, broke. A conductor kicked him off a train at a junction called Swastika, in northern Ontario. A down-&-out Chinese was sitting there, and when Oakes said he was a gold prospector the Chinese said that if gold was all he wanted there was plenty of it all around the place. Oakes found it, staked out Lake Shore Mine. It became the second-richest gold mine in the world: by 1927 it had paid Oakes $28 million in dividends, and thereafter it yielded him approximately $3 million a year...
Legal Practice. In Warsaw, N.Y., Doctors Henry S. Martin and Thomas Thomas boarded a train. They got off 6.2 miles away at Silver Lake Junction and took another. They got off 7.7 miles away at Perry, walked 2.5 miles, teed...
...vanished Douglas had taken off from Portela airfield outside Lisbon, an international junction shared by Allied and Axis planes. The afternoon transport from London used to bring English newspapers for the German Embassy. Over this line, via Switzerland, passed information on war prisoners. The planes using Portela enjoyed an unwritten guarantee of safe conduct...
...Wedgies" are the latest styles for paratroopers. The new rubber heels, made by Goodyear, have a smooth junction with the sole to avoid snagging, provide a better cushion for hard landings...