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...plant, that eventually led to a career in art. During lunch hour, Guy and some other factory hands practiced tumbling and acrobatics. A talent scout for a vaudeville team noticed Guy and offered him a job with the troupe. Guy took it, but soon decided the future looked mighty meager. Says he: "I kept seeing all those old acrobats hanging around, and they always looked so sad." Guy, who had always liked to draw, spotted an easier act in the show: the artist on stage who drew pictures of customers or famous people on request. After a successful...
...could not get the $3 million worth of securities that he owed his customers. Did this mean Geyer was doomed to go bankrupt? Said he: "If we do, it won't be voluntary." Many a Wall Streeter thought Geyer & Co.'s capitalization of $220,000 was too meager for its annual volume (well over $100 million). But at week's end some fellow brokers were rallying round, offering to help George Geyer along with capital until he made good to his customers...
...Just Joe. In this setting dwell some of the most primitive white people in North America, the Gatineau mountaineers. They scratch out a meager living by farming and lumbering. Faith healers, seers and hermits abound among them. Families sometimes grow so big that parents run out of names. The woods are populated with brothers named Black Luke and Red Luke, Little Joe, Big Joe and Just...
...late as the autumn of 1949, Oppenheimer was willing to grant an all-out H-bomb effort "a better than even chance" of success within five years. However "he was aware that the efforts being put forth . . . were relatively meager . . . and if research were continued at the same pace, there would be little likelihood of success for many years...
Japan's Teachers Union is half a million strong and dominated by Communists. Some of its members use the Communist Party newspaper Akahata as a text in classes, organize their adolescent charges into party cells, on occasion contribute from their meager (average $53 monthly) salaries to the financing of anti-U.S. movies...