Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rothbart got a shock. Instead of the promised "palatial residence," he and his wife were ushered into a dilapidated shack. Operations at the well were fenced in and guarded by men with shotguns. When Rothbart finally was allowed in, what he saw worried him even more. The drill cores brought up from some 17,000 ft. were not soft, oily limestone but dry, hard rock. After Vasen refused to have a laboratory analysis made of the cores, the Rothbarts asked for their money back. When they did not get it, they went...
...Prizewinner Fraley Has Her Wish": when you inform the world that Mrs. Walter R. Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak of rust...
...squad of sergeants and a radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed...
...with flashbacks, Mrs. Albany racks up a high score in pure malevolence. Among other things, she drives her stepson to alcoholism and her stepdaughter to an early death. She also pushes her only daughter across the brink into insanity. Her husband, a doctor, leaves home and dies in the shack of a friendly doxy...
...crews were in bed by 8 p.m. They were up at 3 a.m. for a breakfast of two slices of French toast and two or three huge cups of coffee. (Each man paid for his own breakfast: 55^.) By 3:30 a.m., they were in the weather shack for a final briefing. Ceiling was at 1,700 ft. and closing down fast. By 4:30 a.m., they were at their planes (the ground crews had been there an hour and a half earlier). While a^ big, square dummy bomb, about the size of a piano crate, was loaded into...