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Paladin of Siva from India's coral strand...
...daylight, in the Strand, "people drifted by with a half-dazed, half-sleepy expression on their faces, as if they had forgotten something but couldn't remember what it was. Something uneasy, abnormal in this leisure, like . . . like a watch running down...
...Peru, one strand was swept out completely: Lufthansa Peru. Tiny L.P. operated only two old Junkers over a 1,210-mile route, had a total investment of scarcely more than $50,000. But it pegged the German luftweb on the West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across South America from Rio de Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft...
...watched its sales jump to 1,800,000,000 last year. Brown & Williamson's Wings adopted the new size, so did Spuds (Axton-Fisher), Beech-Nut (P. Lorillard), Dunhill (Philip Morris). Other makers thought up new names: Stratford (Fleming-Hall Co., Inc.), Cinclair (A. Ladis Tobacco Co.), Melowicks (Strand Tobacco Co.), etc. Out of 180,000,000,000 cigarets sold last year, the King size accounted for about...
...Omaha next year Vance turns up, gets a job as scout in Creighton's line-building expedition. Vance takes one look at Creighton's pretty sister (Virginia Gilmore) and decides to go straight. But as the line of poles with its thin strand of wire moves slowly west, they meet a band of outlaws who steal their horses, turn the Indians against them, fire their camp. Leader of the outlaws is Vance's brother, Jack Slade (Barton MacLane). Vance's resolution wavers but in the end he proves worthy of Creighton's trust, dies...