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...pictures cannot be judged by any taste test; it is their emotional impact that matters. Ponderous and muddy though Koerner's art can be, it has all the weight and bite of a steam shovel. Where, when and how did he develop the steam...
...ropes. Australians were plainly fed up with widening bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
...Curley came over to Cambridge at the outset of his career and bought a second-hand rich boy's suit from Max Keezer that he were for years as alderman and mayor. Now, you see him mostly in a cutaway; supposedly he once showed up in a tuxedo to shovel the first clod of earth for a foundation, complaining that he hadn't hat time to change his clothes after a formal luncheon...
After lunch Charles Luckman gave a personal demonstration of his thesis. Eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, armed with a silver-plated shovel, he broke ground for a new $25 million soap and food products plant. Lever Bros., he said, would spend another $30 million on expansion and modernization elsewhere. That would make a total bet of $55 million that the jabber-jitterers were talking jabberwocky...
Modern prospectors who take to the hills in search of uranium need fancier equipment than the oldtime pick, shovel and burro. They also need a new kind of knowledge. To help uranium prospectors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Geological Survey last week issued a handbook, written in simple language, called Prospecting for Uranium (Government Printing Office; 30?). It describes various uranium ores, tells where they are apt to be found and how they can be identified...