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...Loami, Ill., W. H. Workman, 68, carved himself a set of false teeth from a hickory plank. Once a month he soaks them in olive...
...make nitrates for gunpowder. The T. R. I. A. favored acceptance of some private bid for the plant's use. Mr. Huston collected cash, sent more than $156,000 in four years to his Washington headquarters. In 1928 he had a large hand in writing the Muscle Shoals plank in both the Republican and Democratic platforms. His association lobbied for the Muscle Shoals bid of the American Cyanamid Co., under which Union Carbide Co. would get a share of surplus Muscle Shoals power...
Although generations of initial-carvers have practised their art on the plank benches of Sever and even more on those of Harvard Hall, the air in these venerable edifices has never been given a fair chance to escape from its bondage; with typical New England economy it has been used over and over. Like those Californian builders who place stucco fronts on frame houses, the University has provided ventilators which have for a long time proved admirable embellishments to the otherwise bare walls. There is one difficulty with these; with the general increase in knowledge during the last few decades...
...welldrained, convenient spot, dig a pit 8 ft. square by 9½ ft. deep. Board up the sides with cheap lumber. Dump a layer of coarse gravel on the bottom. Over the hole build a shack with a double plank floor insulated with building paper. When freezing weather arrives pour two to four gallons of water into the pit each day. By the time of spring thaw there will be a block of ice eight feet square by more than six feet thick, on which perishables may be preserved. The ice will not all melt before the autumn freezes come...
Rank still counts: this particular camp, in which only officers are allowed, is ruled by the ranking officer with the severe discipline, the stiff etiquette, of the regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again...