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Viscountess Astor accepted a challenge at a U.S. Army camp in Britain, told a bunch of dialect stories to the troops, presently struggled away with a prize: a 40-lb. pig...
...Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...
Suckled by mighty Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams is one of the lustiest of West Coast war babies-its brand-new aluminum industry. Thriving on cheap power, five huge reduction plants have burgeoned in less than four years, now turn out 30% of U.S. pig aluminum. But many a West Coast industrialist is worried over the baby's future. Reason: its mother, mammoth Alcoa, may strangle...
...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...
...Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed...