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...putting down one of Burnett's books before you have finished it; The Silver Eagle is no exception. As in Little Caesar, the scene is contemporary Chicago, but this time the hero is no gangster but a racketeer perforce. Francis Cecil Harworth (ne plain Keogh) has come up from scratch to a position that includes the ownership of several nightclubs, a gambling house, a Rolls-Royce and a limited but attractive choice of women. All his businesses are strictly legal with the exception of the gambling house. Harworth is a hard young man with no sense of humor, big ambitions...
...Newport, Monmouthshire, England, a scratch from her husband's toenail in bed was stated at the inquest to have caused the death of Mrs. Ada Stevens, wife of a nailmaker...
...meet with less disturbance than working during the day." He would arise about 4 p. m. at his Cherokee Park home, go to town in the evening, to a branch of his National Bank. There he would sit at the desk of a vice president and, with barely the scratch of a pen, direct his myriad affairs political, financial, mercantile. And there he would issue occasional orders for his paper. There, at midnight or later, his business associates would have to go if they wanted to talk with him. After his banks failed it was observed that Publisher Brown went...
...North Pole. Ice had broken off the submarine's diving fins. Nonetheless. Sir Hubert had water-filled her diving chambers, had nosed under vast cakes of ice. When she first scraped under, the hollow steel hull. Wilkins reported, "was a veritable drum or sound box with the faintest scratch of the ice sounding like the ripping of giant strips of calico. Heavy bumps set up tremors like the continuous shocks of earthquakes...
...would receive one share of the new company's stock for each share now held. Tide Water stockholders were to get eight new shares for ten old, Prairie Pipe Line ten for 14. The terms for Rio Grande were not estimated but at current prices of the "scratch" securities and Rio common it looked as though holders of the latter would be offered ten Commonwealth shares for 25 Rio Grande. Sinclair preferred, of which there were 141,290 shares outstanding, was to be retired at the call price, $110. What disposition would be made of Tide Water preferred...