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...Account. In Calgary, Alberta, steam-shovel operator Harry Gallelli, excavating a basement, uncovered a cache of several hundred U.S. silver dollars and 50^ pieces, rushed happily to a bank, learned they were all counterfeit...
First score of the year against the Boston boys came in the second period when Jim Kenary's tantalizing shovel passes, climaxed with a long flip to Bob Forsyth, advanced the ball to the Jayvee one. After two unsuccessful line bucks, Kenary tossed to Don Trimble in the flat for six points. Kenary's try for the conversion was wide...
Through the golden-green wheatfields of Honan Province, the twelfth longest river in the world ran sluggishly thick with yellowish silt from the loess lands of China's northwest. On its soggy banks last week coolies toiled with hand and basket, shovel and wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into...
...They wanted us to build and operate a big basic chemical plant. I didn't know about operating such a plant, but they told us anyone who could operate an electric shovel, move 30 or 40 feet of overburden to get an 18-inch seam of coal, and make it pay, could operate anything...
Whalers like these too. They shovel them out of whales' stomachs, ready pickled in gastric juices...