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...tunes in strange hieroglyphics comprehensible only to himself. Now he presents them as The American Songbag.* There are some 280, and, like the family piecebag, they are of all colors and patterns. There are songs of sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos, of prisoners and pick & shovel men, of washerwomen, bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives...
...forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges, a challenge which too probably will be answered by the snorting of the steam shovel echoed in empty classrooms...
...unprecedented success of my magnum opus of last year. "The Forecast Saga, "had led to a popular clamor for a sequel, to called "The Silver Shovel." And I promised to write it, but the little woman has put her foot down. She says my life story must not appear, that she does not want to have to share me with all the world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give...
Seventy-seven Bucyrus Steam Shovels handled the dry excavation of the Panama Canal until 1907, when 24 shovels were purchased from the Marion Steam Shovel Co. ; no other shovels for canal construction were purchased after this...
...WYSE Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis. In a footnote, TIME, Sept. 26, said: "It has been said that 'Marion built the Panama Canal because these [the Marion Steam Shovel Co.'s] shovels were used extensively. . . ." To Bucyrus shovels all credit for their part. It must also be said that "South Milwaukee built the Panama Canal...