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Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
Lublin, Poland, the city which once complained because the Tsars changed a nobleman's castle into a prison, was recently chosen by Adolf Hitler as the site of his long-planned Jew-sump. By next April 1, according to a German government decree, 150,000 Jews must be evacuated to Lublin or other "reservations" like it from Bohemia, 65,000 from Vienna, 30,000 from Posen and the onetime Polish Corridor, 175,000 from the Lodz district, 240,000 from Germany proper...
Officials of Chicago's suburban Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District know the difference between a mosquito drainage ditch and a hole in the ground. Furthermore, they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches...
...week's end at Wheeling, W. Va.'s island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...
...Xmas, Inc., dat's me," said Herman. "Dey say you can't get sump'n fer nuthin' around here but dat's de bunk. Looka wot I got fer a lot o' lousy little saucers...