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...hell out of the books that appear on it, run with those that are successful and remainder everything else." And along the Pacific? "Out here we put out our lists and stick with them. We don't like to see anything go out of print." Like a practiced surveyor, he knows exactly where to draw the line: "What we and Black Sparrow and North Point offer has perhaps less to do with geography than philosophy. Ten years ago, the East published the book, but we live it: Small Is Beautiful...
...conspiracy crumbled under the scrutiny of experts. One noted that Lincoln signed his alleged letters to Rutledge "Abe," when he was known to have abhorred the nickname. Others pointed out that Lincoln, once a land surveyor, had cited "Section 40" in a letter supposedly written at a time when such sections were not numbered higher than 36. Lincoln referred to "Kansas" at a time when the region was commonly called "Indian country...
Kieran Kenny, then 17 years old and an unemployed surveyor trainee from industrial Wigan in Britain's Lancashire, must have touched the heart of someone at Buckingham Palace when he wrote a plaintive letter to Queen Elizabeth II in 1980, asking for a job. Within weeks Kenny was hired as a stores (pantry) clerk and assigned lodgings in the staff quarters. Like all employees of the royal household, Kenny had to pledge in writing never to reveal to outsiders what goes on inside the royal residences...
...long ago as 1830, a czarist surveyor named Alexander Shrenk suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...
...core of Galbraith's book is political--because tenure notwithstanding, the author's most important undertakings have been in the real world outside of the ivory tower. The bare outlines of that career begin with wartime service at the Office of Price Administration followed by a stint as a surveyor of bombing damage in Germany and Japan...