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...break-even point of $110 a cord for wood-burners. Dry firewood sells for $80 to $90 in rural New England, for $90 in the Middle West, hovers between $150 and $200 near the big East Coast cities, and has climbed to $225 in Manhattan. (Artificial logs made of sawdust and paraffin, and sold at most supermarkets, can be dangerous if used in woodburning stoves, and are no great bargain at about $1.40 for a three-hour log.) Still, even half a cord of firewood stacked in a garage is a comforting source of emergency heat for buz zards...
Flights are interrupted from time to time for fowl play. Children are invited to scratch for nickels in two sawdust piles. The winner is Dan Deaver of Gallipolis, a beaver-toothed boy who has been "nine for a week now." He finds 27 nickels. Blond Kathy Markwood, 8, of Rio Grande is top girl with 15. They receive a silver dollar and the honor of being photographed with Evans. A human in white chicken suit demands entry. A lengthy rule-book search discloses no weight limit to keep him out but he is disqualified be cause he cannot fit through...
Kasper has been awake for the greater part of three days working on the project, and he looks it. His blond hair is all askew and his black pants are covered with sawdust; yet there is a dancing madness in his eyes that is most engaging, especially when he discusses his plans...
...element, Kasper squats on the floor hammering, two inches deep in sawdust, odoriferous from not having showered in a couple days...
...uncomplicated as the discovery by General Motors that it could save $1,576 a year in electricity bills merely by removing the fluorescent bulbs in its shop-floor vending machines. North Carolina's Sanford Brick and Tile Co. (350 employees) is taking advantage of the mountains of sawdust discarded by nearby furniture factories: it is combining the sawdust with either natural gas or diesel fuel to cut the cost of firing its baking kilns...