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Adventure was clearly carpentered to fit the old Gable formula, and ex-aerial-gunner-photographer Gable himself fits the formula as smoothly and as agreeably as ever. If he is a little chubbier around the jowls, he is still able to sling his weight around-and in his bright eye is the same old wicked fire...
...York City, they revolted. Led by Eugene Sampson, business agent for Manhattan's largest local, 791, the rebels had balked at a Ryan-negotiated contract which gave them a 10?-an-hour pay increase and a week's paid vacation. Reason: it ignored their demands for smaller sling loads, larger working crews and a guarantee of at least four hours per job. Also, the strikers objected to Ryan on general principles...
...Sling-Shots & Flit-Guns. Desperately, the P.G.C. examined the main highway to the north. It turned out to be an ancient caravan route which showed no signs of having been repaired since King Darius officially declared it open, some years before he lost the Battle of Marathon...
...road was also in constant use by two million nomadic savages, who were dead-shots with the kind of sling that David used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...
...trying to alibi a silly statement," he said, "but I can't even ride. Oh, why didn't I keep my big mouth shut?" As he spoke, there was a lot of commotion. A destroyer-transport had come alongside, put a big packing case into a sling, sent it over to the Missouri. It was the saddle...