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...estate agent spluttered in angry despair over the "incredible, appalling despoliation." Already 450 acres of the estate surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, ancestral Fitzwilliams seat in Yorkshire, had been chewed by huge shovels scooping out subsurface coal. A farm, a woodland, a parkland had been dug up. Soon a stud farm, paddocks, fish pond, tree nursery, stately avenues and timbered slopes would also go. The place was a "complete mess...
...current idol, Blackwater Cutlet, a small, black 61-pounder from Wimbledon, who gets fan mail. Before races the Cutlet parades with haughty superiority in front of cheering stands who class him with famed Mick the Miller, now immortal and stuffed at Government expense, and Ballynennan Moon, now standing at stud at the record...
...gives me his diamon' stud...
Devise a Trick. Earlier welding guns could be used only on horizontal plates. A small mound of powdered metal, of flux, was dumped on the plate and fused by electricity to attach the "stud." But on perpendicular plates there was no way to keep the flux in place. Instead, a small square of "welding pad" had to be laboriously welded, then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting...
This week the ship was free of the mud. The danger interval was past. But newsreel crews, photographers and reporters watching from their gallery along the elevated highway would play through many a stud game before the job was finished. The Navy would have to wait longer still before the reborn Lafayette made people forget the burned Normandie...