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When Hop & crew walked the plank last winter into reorganization, A. G. & E. Corporation (which controls the $1,000,000,000 system's operating properties) and A. G. & E. Company (which used to control CORP.) became charges of New York Federal Judge Vincent Leibell, with SEC looking on. To insure impartiality, Judge Leibell appointed a separate trustee for Co., because its future (apart from its minority interest in some of CORP.'S junior bonds) depends on what it can get out of suing CORP. Objective of the suit: back in 1933, Hoppy had tried to escape...
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TIME keeps good company. Its foreign policy plank is just about as clear-cut as those of the G. O. P. and the Democratic Party, as nicely calculated to appeal to both interventionist and isolationist customers. I trust it didn't take as long to write...
Boyer hurried down the mountain to summon aid from Seattle. Through the afternoon, night and next morning, Faye Plank sat alone on a six-inch ledge, fighting sleep and listening to the noisy growl of the waterfalls. She had to watch the rope and hold it jammed in a crevice with her boot heels. Said she: "I could hear Anne down below. At first she was just moaning. But when it got dark she began calling. . . . Night lasted a long time, but the early morning was the worst. . . ." At 10:30 that morning, sleepless Karl Boyer and the rescuers...
...afternoon six men carried the stretcher while three others paid out the rope, foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe sunburn from the reflected glare of ice and snow, but, barring complications, would live for another Sunday on Shuksan...