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Last year's genuine ski enthusiasts at the Annex could have been transported to North Conway in a jeep. This year finds a Radcliffe Ski club, chartered by the Student Government Association; extra storage space set apart in the Quadrangle dormitories for ski equipment; entryways stacked with waxed lumber, and northward-bound parties large enough to fill a special...
...used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...
...bright idea of asking poets to give him, gratis, early drafts of poems, work sheets, notebooks, etc. To the poets, these papers would be mere rejected lumber, but to analytical students they would give a priceless chance to delve into "the heart of the poem's mystery...
...pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities of lath, presumably kept it out of normal channels...
...feverish zeal of the war, and in spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...