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...walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze. The plane's propeller was already turning...
...passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error, sending 100 ex-Marine guards to the spot on the run with guns ready. Deputy Governor W. Randolph Burgess rang a false alarm by mistake the first day he arrived. Communication is maintained with Governors Island, 15 min. away, where ten companies of infantry are stationed. Enough food...
...last Schmeling four was rounds fresher in were the last round, the fastest of a sharp but not particularly dramatic match. When the bell ended it. he ran lightly to his corner. Sharkey followed him. When Schmeling sat down on his stool, Sharkey placed one foot on the lowest rung and leaned down to talk. What he talked about was not revealed but his gesture was so nonchalant that it was seized upon afterwards as a significant item for the furious arguments that followed the fight. Four out of the last five heavyweight championship fights have had acrimonious aftermaths...
During the winter I happened to break one leg, with its adjacent rungs, of a black-and-gold chair of the type supplied to all dormitory rooms. I took the broken chair to the Janitor's Office, and forget about the matter until my term bill appeared with a charge for $5.68. I protested this unreasonable amount to the Bursar's Office, and received the following itemization: Carpenter stock, I left arm (it was actually a leg, but no matter)… $.60, I front rung $.07 (granted), I side rung $.07 (granted); Carpenter labor $3.00 (with the proper tools...
...Darkness and Boy, now supplemented by a first novel by Derbyshire Coalminer Boden. Though less savage than Hanley's books, Author Boden's novel treats the same general theme-the brutalizing misery of those on or below the economic ladder's lowest rung...