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...they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened to the deck. Unnecessary bulkheads, deck rails, and the masthead wind indicator (weight: about 2 lbs.) were gone. Even a beer cooler and a wooden pipe rack were sacrificed for speed...
Focusing popular attention on the 30,000 deaths from lung cancer each year, said Dr. Hammond, has obscured the more deadly fact that four times as many "excess'' fatalities among cigarette addicts are due to a long and tangled chain of events. Between puffs on his pipe, he reported that deeply inhaled cigarette smoke sends a threat of pre mature death spreading through the lungs, arteries and the heart itself...
...accompanied by at least a minimum of atmosphere and service. By so doing, he, more than any other discounter, has brought respectability to a business in which the clerks all too often seem to be taking 10% off for rudeness. At Korvette's, the discounter's original pipe racks and cold concrete floors have given way to piped-in music and wall-to-wall carpeting. But Korvette's prices still range 10% to 40% below "list" (list price itself is getting to be more of a fiction...
...furnace mill was sold for $7,500,000 to an optimistic group of Texas businessmen. To run it, they chose Germany, a onetime schoolteacher and salt packer who had grown wealthy as an oilfield wildcatter. Borrowing from the Reconstruction Finance Agency, Germany added open-hearth furnaces, manufactured steel pipe and sold it to oil drillers on the promise that he could ship cheaper than Eastern mills and on 24 hours' notice. Using low-grade local iron ore to save on transportation costs, Germany made good on his promise, and before long Lone Star was one of the top suppliers...
...barber shop. The holes in the wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried it loose and squeezed through to the roof. By now they were in full view of the guardpost at the No. 1 tower at the northern end of the prison compound...