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...family's Union Pacific. In 1915, two years after graduating, became a U.P. vice president, board chairman in 1932; also (1931) a partner in the banking house, Wall Street's Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Introduced "streamliners," low-cost dining cars; turned 4,200 acres of snowbound railroad land into moneymaking Sun Valley. Gave up shipbuilding venture in the face of rugged competition; abandoned a Russian manganese export concession fearing Soviet nationalism...
...machine worked too well. When Vittoni & Vowels quit work for the day, they found they were snowbound. They called for help by radio, but rescue squads could not reach them. On the third day, engineers bulldozed through four-foot drifts and brought the snowmakers down to civilization...
From Norway a Navy. That afternoon, landing at Oslo, Ike's plane circled snowbound Gardermoen airfield for 15 minutes, then slid in. Ike climbed into a Norwegian admiral's Cadillac for the 36-mile drive to the capital. He learned that Norway would need all her 22,000-man force, plus her reservists, to defend her long, exposed coastline and her boundary with Russia. Norway's 4,000-man brigade in Germany will be turned over to Ike's command, and the government plans to raise the draft period from nine to twelve months. During luncheon...
...Detroit, with their costumes, scenery and props all snowbound in Pittsburgh, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne followed through the-show-must-go-on tradition, played I Know My Love in street clothes on a bare stage...
Proceeding on these rules, the editor includes the whole of such diverse long poems as Whitman's rembling, programmatic "Song of Myself," Whittior's New England winter idyll, "Snowbound," and Wallace Stevens' difficult piece, "The Comedian as the Lotter...