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Story. In Shreveport, La., C. E. Whitney returned from nearby Cross Lake with a fish story: on one cast he caught five catfish. Someone had lost a string of five, and one of the five went for Whitney's worm...
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Arctic weather has a bag of tricks that cannot be learned in occasional nights to Alaska or midwinter operations in Minnesota. This winter, many a service pilot and mechanic who has worked at San Diego and Shreveport will head north to beat new enemies-sudden fogs, icing weather, sub-zero temperatures that make engine-starting tough. New hangar and field equipment will have to be designed and tested, new cold-weather clothing tried out. From now on, Alaska becomes a permanent station of U. S. defense...
...World War I than West Point), maneuvers, a showerbath, dinner with ex-Governor Jim Ferguson and 900 other guests (roast Texas steer). Then on 160 miles to Tyler, the East Texas oil fields blazing fountains of burning gas in the hot night; to bed at 1:30 a.m. In Shreveport, La. a holiday crowd of 10,000, and a reception by Governor-elect Sam Jones; to Jackson at midnight, to bed after the usual talks with politicians, the usual three glasses of milk...
...freed 91 players, four of them brought up from the farms to Detroit's own roster, the rest secretly kept in "cold storage" on bush-league teams from Shreveport to Seattle. Detroit had prized this buried talent at something like $500,000. Beyond this paper loss, it had to shell out some $50,000 in adjustments. One team with which Detroit had a secret deal, Hot Springs in the Cotton States League, found itself with only one player after the great emancipation...