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Milling Around
All sorts of strange things happen when the Veterans Administration sends out its checks. Once, after checks were distributed, there was a sudden invasion of the Counsellor's office. The telephone began ringing incessantly. There were 100 veterans milling about, waving signed but blank checks. "What's the story?" they...
The enemy had thoroughly prepared Red Beach for defense. There were fine, newly dug trenches and well-placed pillboxes. But all were unoccupied. We crossed a road strewn with hunks of shrapnel and reached the side of a five-story building once occupied by the Jinsen Milling Co. It was...
At 10 a.m., at the opening gong, the traders began milling around the 18 stock trading posts. The biggest crowd jammed around Post No. 4, where two specialists handle the buying & selling of G.M. stock. Up rose a babble of cries. "I'll take 2,500 shares," offered one...
Pins & Needles. Not all of the milling about was good-natured. Some students opened their lunch boxes and pelted police with apples and sandwiches. A few hoodlums jabbed pins & needles into horses' flanks. At one point, some of them trampled in the roof of a city-owned car and...