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Hardly larger than a duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...
...western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading the work of subcontractors into its smallest possible subdivisions. Several moribund New England towns rolled up their sleeves and spit on their hands. But while the defense boom reclaimed old ghost towns, a new question rose: How many new ones would it create...
...spectacle. The prelude, in which the camera follows a long caravan across the mountains into the dirty, becrusted little town of Tucson, is filled with all the miscellany which Hollywood attaches to a scene to make it Big. The Tucson of 1860 is painstakingly reproduced to the smallest adobe-brick hut; the streets are crawling with extras, packed with props. Before the end there appear at one time or another 600 head of Hereford cattle, 485 horses, 1,200 ("thousands of") extras, 150 rippling, bare-skinned Papago Indians...
...Morgan is the only man who ever kicked him out of his office, but "has long since nobly mellowed." His office displays what B. C. suspects are the largest and smallest checks ever written in a business transaction: $208,581,250 to George Baker's First National Bank for part of the famous James Hill railroad financing; 1? to J. P.'s son Junius for a Federal tax refund...
...through the University of Michigan Medical School by teaching anatomy. Later she taught at Northwestern, the University of Illinois, finally settled down in Chicago at Loyola, where she is now professor emeritus. She still operates four days a week, is famed for making the world's smallest appendix incisions-half an inch...