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...Renfrewshire, Scotland, where a narrow little creek called the River Cart joins the twisting Clyde there is a fertile fan-shaped farm. It boasts three good fields, a bit of useless swamp, a shaded dirt road. For the past year what made it different from all other farm land in Scotland was that every time its farmer raised his eyes from the furrow he saw towering over his head the vast stern and mountainous superstructure of the greatest ship ever built in Britain, Queen Mary. When the farmer looked up from his field last week Queen Mary was gone, safe...
...Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps...
...conclusion of the investigation by the Department of Commerce and by American Airlines at the scene of the crash more than 20 men were employed to rake the entire swamp area and to assemble in one place any and all parts of the airplane discovered...
...night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found him in Moody Swamp, his mother's body in a ravine. Police forced frightened Negroes to dig a grave in Little Sandy Cemetery, into which the family council laid Mrs. Scott...
...night last November a detail of Tampa, Fla. police raided a committee meeting of radicals who were busy promoting "the unemployed struggle." Six agitators were carted off to headquarters, questioned, released. Thereupon a masked mob promptly picked up three of them, whisked them away to a swamp outside town, beat, tarred, feathered them. Hospitalized, one of the agitators named Shoemaker subsequently died. It was widely reported in Tampa that police had been members of the masked...