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...machine was notorious. Penrose's predecessor was Boss Matthew Stanley Quay, the dark, withered, predatory man whose miscast eyes were cocked over all the craft and spoliation in Pennsylvania. Quay had been content to run the machine. Curiously, Penrose's chief ambition was to be mayor of Philadelphia, an aim which he might have achieved if he had not been photographed one dawn leaving a Philadelphia brothel. Pennsylvania's voters, however, sent him to the Senate for 24 years...
...quay at El Ferrol, where the Caudillo was born, an old man sings to himself: "Francisco, you are done for. Francisco, you are sunk." The police pounce on him. They discover that the culprit is the Caudillo's aged father, who is sure that his son's power & glory are evanescent and will lead him only to ruin...
...Rudolf Quay. Beside the tank barricades and rolls of barbed wire which the Germans threw across the streets, the pavements were littered with piles of broken furniture. Whenever the defenders chose to make a fort out of a house they threw the contents into the street. Rudolf Quay was littered with an untidy heap of crumpled pianos...
...which should not take more than a week; for larger ships, some dredging will be necessary. In peacetime, the silty channel had to be dredged every day in order to get larger ships (up to 30,000 tons) to Antwerp's 24 docks and 28½ miles of quay front...
...Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near the quay...