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...route to Fort Pitt, Salathiel met a white girl and, after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...
...Yangtze, the old wooden water gates and the interlocking channels of the 2,200-year-old irrigation system, installed a few years after Alexander invaded India, are still working this month. In Argentina on these hot midsummer days the crowds from Buenos Aires are swarming to the playground of Mar del Plata, to gamble in the biggest casino in the world. The earth that has been carrying war around the sun has carried as well the work and the relaxations, the moviegoing, horse racing, kiteflying, card-playing, visiting, talking, worshiping life...
Well, here 'tis another week and again we have no time to write home to Ma, much less write columns for newspapers. But we've got our pants now and nothing can mar our happiness. So, pardon us if we just muse for 250 words or so... to express that carefree spirit which is ours...
...this scene came balding, chunky, nervous-quick Robert Wilson Wolcott, 50, who took a swing in the Navy and Bethlehem Steel, worked up to be Lukens' president six years after he mar ried a Huston girl. As the big boss Wolcott began to: 1) specialize in oversized hot rolled plates, 2) set up fabricating subsidiaries to give Lukens a broader market. Both schemes clicked and the huge 206-in. mill was soon thundering out big plates for merchant ships, machine tools, railroad equipment, etc., the fabricating divisions prospered on special castings, all-welded cylinder blocks...
...providing quick, localized heating by using a broadcasting set of enormous power that directs its energy at the surface of the sheet just where it is needed, melts the tin coating without affecting the steel base, and without any physical contact between the strip and the furnace to mar...