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Summing up, Truman said: "Whoever the Democratic nominee for President may be this year, he will have this record to run on." At that moment, in that hall, the thought that Harry Truman should be the nominee sprang out of all that Truman had said and the way he said...
...President of the United States, I urge every Wisconsin friend of his cause to cast his or her ballot for Governor Warren in the coming primary." Then the 30 Warren-pledged delegates announced that they would switch to Ike if Warren could not get the nomination. "Warren-Eisenhower" clubs sprang up. Pro-Ike newspapers urged a vote for the California governor, carefully pointed out that write-in votes would not be counted in Wisconsin...
...Motor Sales. Even before the Government had settled property claims battalions of snorting earthmovers plunged into the fields. They ripped through swamp gum thickets that had sheltered some of the finest turkey and partridge coverts in the East, churned the rich red clay into a lifeless desert. Huge huts sprang up, weird cylindrical towers rose against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading their...
...fell from fash ion. In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started breeding them and founded the domestic chinchilla industry. From his original eleven animals sprang virtually all the estimated 250,000 chinchillas in the U.S. today...
...starving. Rose found a foster mother. Now the cat-loving James Masons oblige in such emergencies. When the noise of gravel trucks disturbed the home rehearsals of Cinemactress Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton), Rose persuaded the truckers to change their hours. In last week's storm, the Crier sprang into action, helped to set up an aid station complete with registered nurse and hot coffee, organized work crews...