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...done jobs as marvelous as the Berlin air lift before. Take the time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox dug the St. Lawrence River in three weeks. When Billy Pilgrim tried to make it tough for Babe by wetting and stretching the buckskin ropes attached to the scoop shovel, Babe just sat down until the sun came out and dried the ropes. As they dried they shrank, and pulled that scoop for miles & miles up to Babe. And there was the St. Lawrence, practically...
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas have a highly experienced way with this sort of comedy, and Director H. C. Potter is so much at home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...
TIME gave the circumstances of his death: "Mr. Coolidge sat talking with Secretary Ross-about the Plymouth place, last year's pa'tridge shooting, hay fever. ... He evened up the pens on the desk. He went 'down cellar,' watched the furnace man shovel coal. About noon he disappeared upstairs, presumably to shave, as so many New Englanders do about midday...
...that a day of terrible decision will arrive about April 1. Unless by then ERP is not only assured, but aid's arrival is guaranteed by a definite early date (midsummer or early fall), the British Government will have to slash imports. It can no longer afford to shovel in some $200 million a month of dwindling gold and dollar reserves to fill the trade...
...pick & shovel corps of science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished animals, men and civilizations. Recent doings of the diggers...