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...made a comfortable living at it, although he never became the big oil baron that he might have been. Through the years, he never lost his urge to prospect for oil. When he was nearly 90, he was still setting out in his old model A with pick and shovel, to probe among the rocks...
...Sketches of a 2,600-ton power shovel, made by the Marion (Ohio) Power Shovel Co., probably the largest piece of mobile equipment ever built. The $2,500,000 shovel, as high as a twelve-story building, will scoop out 100 tons of the earth and rock that covers coal deposits every 50 seconds...
S.O.P. In Milwaukee, after listening to testimony that John S. Hanley drank to excess, threatened to leave his wife, failed to assume domestic responsibilities, refused to hang storm windows, shovel snow or cut the grass, Judge Robert C. Cannon dismissed Mrs. Barbara Hanley's divorce suit, told her she was not being specific enough...
...snow, nonetheless, will delay river bank gamboling for several weeks, and make the distance to women's colleges seem even further. The normal activities of this term are already slowed--skaters are pausing to shovel off frozen lakes, and careful autoists are wrestling with tires and rusty chains. Even the shoeshine will have to wait until the small boys put away the buckets of water they are now using to freeze snowballs out of dry flakes...
Boundless wealth, he kept assuring Mette (who resolutely sat tight in Denmark), was just around the corner-in Tobago, for instance, where they would "have to do nothing but dig up gold with a spade and shovel." Gauguin actually got as far as Panama on their Tobago road, but the only gold he managed to dig up was the navvy's pay Gauguin got for working on the new canal. From there he pushed on to Martinique: "Paradise, after Panama," he wrote. And the women! "Pretty, my goodness! . . . They do their best to enslave me." Gauguin finally settled down...