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...invasion, the biggest news of the war had an air of anticlimax. The U.S., by & large, greeted the collapse of Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over came their hurt long enough to pretend to celebrate for the benefit of news photographers. But otherwise, as in the rest of the U.S., the first sharp ripple of excitement, the first burst of good feeling soon faded...
Last year Excavator LeTourneau's depression-reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau...
Several hours later found us squated around our open camp fire, inspecting our equipment for the following day. We scraped off the old wax down to the wood with a homemade scraper and applied out native Klister, which is a mixture of pine pitch and oil. We then heated the skis over the fire (as wax will not stick to wet wood) and with a wax mitten rubbed them to a high glassy finish, making them waterproof. The patience and tireless efforts of these Lapplanders has convinced me that waxing is almost as important as actual skill, as by proper...
...Goodnews section of and succeeded in securing options and leases on some 85 20-acre placer platinum-bearing claims and turned this deal to a group of placer miners from Flat, Alaska, who formed a company known as the Goodnew Mining Co. This company placed a dragline scraper mining outfit on this ground in 1934 and although they were held up by the marine strike of that year they succeeded in recovering some 3,000 oz. The hand miners took out about 2,000 oz. that season also. Last summer, 1935, the Goodnews Mining Co. mined out nearly...
...wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...