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...twelve-year-old son, he still lives in a 6s.-a-week cottage in a Cotswold village, 28 miles from Shakespeare's birthplace, without telephone, electricity or gas. He works through the night by kerosene lamp, drives to London, only when he has to, in a small, secondhand...
...point of 96,441 in 1948 under Editor Henry Wallace, the N.R. has slumped to 37,000; the current issue carries only three ads and a column of classifieds. In 1942, Antiques had only 8,043 readers. But the wartime shortage of household furnishings caused a boom in the secondhand market, and Antiques boomed with it, now has 29,921 readers...
...bought a derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink...
...Thomas sat down again his aide whispered frantically. The Senator broke in hoarsely: "They do?" Then he got up for the third time. "Gentlemen," he rumbled, "I was wrong. I did not know that Sweden had a King. I have just been informed that they do. But this is secondhand information...
...Farmer Herman Huckabee is getting $3,500 a month in royalties. Farmer Jackson Ellis could not afford to hire a drilling crew. So he and five of his strapping sons took jobs as roughnecks until they learned how to drill an oil well. Then they bought some secondhand equipment and drilled five shallow wells on their own place, where the sixth and youngest son worked with them as a water boy. Now, with an income of about $5,000 a month, Ellis has bought a new tractor and pickup truck, a complete electric kitchen for his wife, a linoleum...