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Airliners from other countries soon joined the R.A.F. in flying the heavy bales of bags to the British flood areas, where trucks and volunteers stood ready in the cold and snow to fill and pile them up. More than 11 million bags were on hand by the time the spring tides rose again at week's end. Said Wing Commander Masterman, who organized Operation King Canute, as the sandbag-lift was called: "It's been a delight. It shows the thing works in peacetime as well...
...home. They were featured performers, but, even on the bandstand, they dressed in peasanty blouses run up by their economical grandmother Guilfoyle. They were on the road most of the time, playing dance halls, Italian socials, college proms, barn dances in tobacco warehouses until 2 a.m. Afterward they would pile into their bus and ride through the night to the next stop. The girls were chaperoned by their Uncle George Guilfoyle. He would hold the second seat in the bus for the girls (Bandleader Pastor would have the front one), and Uncle George would guard protectively from the third...
...tenth anniversary of the first chain reaction in an atomic pile was celebrated...
...finale came when Tarah was "buried alive." He went into another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight...
...near the end of his second term, old President Andrew Jackson walked across the street from the White House, struck the earth with his walking stick and said: "Right here is where I want the cornerstone." Then & there it was laid, and around it was built the columned granite pile of the U.S. Treasury Department...