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...drew their pistols and ordered one of the youths to drop the broken beer bottle he was carrying. According to the cops, the bottle carrier answered by yelling, "Come and get it, coppers!" In the dust-up that followed, he slashed Patrolman Thomas De Sutter's face. De Sutler, who was also accidentally shot in the foot by his partner, Patrolman Raymond Howard, had to spend 23 days in the hospital...
...story is full of events, but little happens. Adam's foot keeps him out of the fighting, so he works for a sutler selling provisions to Union troops, and eventually fetches up on the fringes of the Battle of the Wilderness (1863). There is a violent episode, the sort Warren has written twenty times, in which two men are shown to have the mark of Cain: a Negro clerk has the brand of a deserter on his buttocks, and Adam's employer wears a highly symbolic money belt. And at the end there is an intertwinedness-of-guilt...
Sutter's own Fidalgo Island Packing Co., which used to can more than 100,000 cases annually (value: as high as $2,500,000), will turn out only 45,000 cases this year, and Sutler wonders if even all of that number can be sold. He alone figures to lose $450,000, and the others-Pacific American Fisheries, Libby-McNeil & Libby, A.& P.'s Nakat Packing Corp., Del Monte Brand's Alaska Packers Association-have all been hit hard. The industry expects to lose close to $15 million. To top it all off, the Federal Trade Commission...
...Exciting show: Cavalcade of the Golden West-24 scenes in a pageant extending from Balboa's discovery of the Pacific and Cabrillo's discovery of California, through the discovery of gold in Sutler's Mill and Custer's Last Stand, to San Francisco in the all-too-gay Barbary-Coast Nineties...
...official price of 20?. Farmer Cannaday complained eggs cost 60? a dozen to produce because of scarcity of grain, that he considered 15$ a dozen reasonable profit. The Leftist Government's inspectors remained adamant and at latest dispatches U. S. Embassy residents quivered with anxiety as Sutler Cannaday threatened, "I'm going to liquidate this poultry farm! I'm going to sell my hens for a measly $1.50 in inflated pesetas each! I'm going to abandon chicken houses, laying racks, individual pens and equipment on which I've spent...