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Passenger revenues, which make up only 10% of total rail income, do not pyramid the costs of other products as freight charges do. But if & when ICC grants higher freight rates (the roads are asking increases to yield additional revenue of some $300,000,000), ICC will rank with the farm bloc as assassins of price control...
...Sheep's Field was in Macedonia. "Of the surrounding hills one stood alone, magnificent in sharp austerity of cliff and pyramid: it is called 'the witness of God.' " Author West and her friends arrived at the Sheep's Field by car. "When we got out we were so near the rock that we could see its colour. It was a flat-topped rock . . . rising to something like six feet above the ground, and it was red-brown and gleaming, for it was entirely covered with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed...
Dumbo is a taupe-colored, blue-eyed baby elephant whose outsize ears move the prima donna .elephants of his mother's circus troupe to call him a "butterfly with a trunk." When he trips on his ears during the elephant act, knocking down a pyramid of elephants and demolishing the Big Top, he is exiled to the circus Siberia: a small part (diving from a burning building into a net) in the clowns...
...Individual Departments (often called the PAIDS) and will under no circumstances do anything whatever that anybody else is doing already. . . . When the Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria (to be referred to as OUCH) has finally been created, then the capstone will have been set upon the pyramid and we can all die happy, strangled in the very best red tape...
...this hair-raising blitz was an attack by eleven speedy A20 light bombers, especially designed for smearing a target of wide area. They whipped over at 4,500 feet, dribbled 176 100-pounders from their bays. Across the target spouted a deadly line of dirt, metal, smoke; the second pyramid took off and floated into fragments...