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Once in the press of business Mr. Roosevelt knocked over his wastebasket, thought nothing of it. Two minutes before he was scheduled to press a telegraph key to open the new Cummings Highway over Tennessee's Lookout Mountain, "Doc" Smithers, White House telegrapher, went into the President's office to see whether everything was in order. It was not. The wastebasket had broken the telegraph wire. Hastily "Doc" Smithers crawled under the desk, held the broken ends of the wires together while the President, grinning, pressed...
...spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh him out of it. He continued to exercise omnipotence over his farm, had a lookout built for himself, kept his household on edge by blowing a horn when he wanted somebody to come running. His granddaughter, Jocelle, became his favorite, but she had to knuckle under like the rest. When the old man discovered that she had been seduced by his nephew, the night before...
...During its trip to San Francisco and back the Panama-Pacific Liner Pennsylvania logged the following incidents: Her surgeon died of a stroke. The engine-room storekeeper died of pneumonia. Both were buried at sea. Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper...
...inexplicably wrong in her stern. A jar-a lurch-and the operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed...
...Louis Shattuck Gates, who saw that what Phelps Dodge needed was low-cost mines and proceeded to buy some. Soon Phelps Dodge ranked third in the business. Though domestic copper stocks went to 747,000 tons and the price to less than 5?, President Gates was still on the lookout for new cheap holes...