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...help themselves. In Britain, Lincolnshire crows, hard put to find fodder under the heavy snows, were attacking sheep; one herder last week reported three sheep killed by the raiders. In the U.S., a huckster's horse with a will of his own staged a sit-down strike smack in the middle of a busy Baltimore street...
...relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane, radioed the pilot what course to fly at what speed, when to lose altitude and how much. Experienced crews brought the plane smack down the middle of the runway again & again in zero-zero conditions. Neither service considered it experimental. The Army has recorded 35,000 G.C.A. landings, the Navy 18,863, in the U.S. and overseas...
...between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...
When Bob Young starts his improvement, probably by trying to get his men elected to Central's board of directors, he will run smack up against Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt and Union Pacific, which owns 160,000 shares of Central. A great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk...
...paste his wallpaper up in. During the war he redecorated a Danish resort hotel, from chandeliers to ashtrays. When comfort-loving Nazis took it over, Karlby hurried home to print an underground newspaper in his cellar. The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden in a fishing smack. There his wallpaper designs made an immediate...