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...Like Rip Van Winkle, utility preferred stocks last week snapped out of a long nap. In the stockmarket they started climbing briskly on greatly increased trading volume. At week's end the senior shares of American & Foreign Power were up two and three points to new 1942 highs (double the year's lows); Electric Power & Light preferreds had jumped five and six points; Electric Bond & Share preferreds were up more than six points; Empire Gas & Fuel 8% preferred topped a phenomenal rise with eight more points to hit 166⅞ - an alltime peak and nearly double the year...
...Dynamiting is quickest, most tricky. A properly placed charge will warp, rip and twist the steel casing, letting in water and sand. Improperly placed, the charge will waste its strength by blowing up and down the well shaft...
...fell and I fell on top of her. I started to rip her clothes. I ripped them and ripped them. But I couldn't rip her belt, so I left it and came back...
Then I went mad, and I thought 'I've got to rip it.' I ripped it and ripped...
Hers was a full childhood. Beryl used to rip out the quivering stomachs of freshly slain reedbuck to feed her dogs. She was once (as a Sikh phrased it to her father) "moderately eaten" by a lion. Attacked by her father's pet baboon, she beat it to death with her knobkerrie...