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...always, when the steam whistle at Brushy Mountain wailed the message that prisoners had gone over the wall, the chase was led by the men who knew the territory best, mountain men who have roamed the area since childhood. They have caught everyone who has escaped from prisons on the site since 1896 -hundreds of convicts, including those who darted away from work details outside the walls. No one could get away from the trackers, not in those mountains, where the terrain funnels newcomers down into a few paths-the only passageways to the outside world and freedom...
...Morris was not, as his detractors suppose, a daft Luddite with pretechnological dreams of a feudal society sans feudal authority. "It is not this or that tangible steam or brass machine which we want to get rid of," he remarked, "but the great intangible machine of commercial tyranny which oppresses the lives of all of us." It was not the machine but its owners who converted skilled into unskilled labor. When Morris advocated "simplicity," he was not calling for a peevish and cloistered asceticism but for a clearing away of inessentials. "I demand a free and unfettered animal life...
...dummy in his cell, used tools provided by another inmate to remove a concrete block in his cell, crawled into an air chamber, ripped the bars from a ventilation fan and slipped into the prison courtyard. There, using a crowbar, he pried open a manhole cover to enter a steam tunnel leading out. But its 400° heat drove him back...
...Burnsian consensus reached at the April meeting of the FOMC was that some trimming of the growth of the money supply is necessary; too much money had begun to flood into the economy as it picked up steam in early spring. The group's decision was to push the federal funds rate up a bit, to as much as 5½%. The Federal Reserve's tighter money policy is already showing up in higher short-term interest rates-to which the stock markets are keenly sensitive-as well as in a rise in the prime lending rate that...
...scope of McCullough's book is enormous: he illuminates the arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...