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...enemy moved little over main roads; these were still being ripped by "the few" of Major General Chennault's air force. Instead, he wormed ahead on footpaths between the yellow-stubbled nee fields, on mule trails through the hills, and-most of all-on the rivers, by sampans which could hide in daylight along banks overhung by trees...
Presidential vetoes only slowed the tide. When the Pension Bill of 1890 was passed, President Harrison urged the Commissioner of Pensions to be "liberal with the boys." The Commissioner, an ex-corporal, promised to "drive a six-mule team through the Treasury." Within a year the annual pension outlay had jumped...
Theme Song. On the Big Day, people came by foot, by train and car, by mule-drawn wagon. They sat on the courthouse lawn, opening their picnic baskets of fried chicken and cherry pie, gaping at the broadcasting equipment, listening to the seven bands parading in courthouse square and shrewdly eyeing the big-city reporters. (The newsmen lounged in a vacant building where whiskey was free...
...grow up to be a mule...
...with ebony-skinned Flash Gordon up, took a clumping lead at a dizzy 15 m.p.h. He had the championship almost won when instinct told him to make a dash for the feed box. This enabled rawboned Pippin, Jockey Cal (for Carroll County) up, to claim title as the fastest mule in the Delta country...