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Lean on your shovel to pass time away...
Winston Churchill, looking for big men for the big job of boosting Great Britain's war-industries output, picked shovel-blunt, beefy Ernest Bevin to be his Minister of Labor. Ever since he had fought Bevin during the General Strike of 1936, it had been plain to Churchill that the strongest man in the British Labor movement was this publicity-shy union official who preferred not to sit in Parliament but wielded enough power to make Laborite Leaders Attlee, Greenwood and Dalton jump when he yanked strings...
...stockholders, common shares in bankrupt railroads have not been worth much. Mobile & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Milwaukee preferred and common stockholders have been purged by ICC reorganization plans, bondholders given the properties. Last week Pennroad Corp., which wrote its security holdings down by $87,959,517 in 1938, began to shovel some of its charred chestnuts into the fire, revealed that it had sold 152,119 of its original 402,119 shares of Seaboard Air Line (in receivership). The shares, which had cost an average of $11, had been marked down on the books to 62?, were sold for 25? each...
Personal and harshly bitter though the book is in essence, it sets up with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...
MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL-Virginia Lee Burton - Houghton Mifflin...