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...Industrial Revolution together with its headaches has brought a decrease in the price of paint. Labor is plentiful around the Yard--or so it would seem from the fine stock of motionless Yard cops. It would be quite simple to paint titles in those soot-stained spaces above the old doors, long untouched by anything but squirrels...
...floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris. He climbed out of the wreckage with his assistant. They dug the hotel's pretty receptionist from under a pile of timbers, extricated one naval officer and put him in an ambulance. (The other officer was dead.) In a hospital where he was taken to have...
Burglars. Targets for the Gangsters and other parashots will be a new class of parachute troops announced by Germany last week, trained to land on city housetops, equipped with burglar tools to break in, silken ropes down which to slide to the ground. They carry kernels of concentrated soot to make their own smoke screens while descending and after landing. Germany's "sealing" of the Maginot Line district last week, as well as the areas facing Britain, was interpreted as a precaution to keep prying eyes from seeing these burglars and other special troops at practice on new wrinkles...
...years St. Louis has had a smoke problem. It has had a smoke commissioner ever since Lee surrendered. And it still has smoke-on windless winter days aviators flying toward the city see, rising over the skyscrapers and chimneys, a vast bulging black parachute of mixed fog and soot that blots out the world below. Suburbanites driving to work on sunny mornings switch on their car lights as they approach the business district and drive into what looks like a gigantic rusty iron wall rising from the pavement to the sky-the smoke that lies thick and russet-green under...
...Grand Championship. Most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds, purebred Angus were first imported from Scotland in 1878 by the Lake Forest, Ill. cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay. Only a few years before, a white-haired Scottish landowner named William McCombie had developed the short-necked, squat, hornless, soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas and in Iowa, were adding Aberdeen-Angus to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show...