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...Seven thousand packinghouse workers-breadwinners for 35,000-are on strike. Chimneys that usually belch clouds of smoke emit only a weak little puff now & then. The resounding thud of a sledge on an animal's forehead is missing. No blood runs on killing floors. The lonesome watchmen make their rounds in silence. To leeward there is no smell...
...That thud you just heard was John Harvard toppling out of his chair," declared Sidney R. Packard, visiting lecturer in History, as Clio, the smiling muse of his calling, gave the old boy a nudge to make way for two more of her sinister...
...color and perfume of flowers was real again-Maine's goldenrod, Wisconsin's black-eyed Susan, New Mexico's Indian paintbrush. Suddenly there was nothing outlandish in the thud of a punted football, the rhythm of a dance band, the bright expensive look of department-store windows, and the solid, unshattered buildings. Across the land last week it was hot, and once more the U.S. people could listen with contentment to that most peaceful of all evening music-the tinkling of the lawn sprinklers, turning drowsily in the darkness...
...most U.S. war plants, war contracts fell with a thud at General Electric Company's giant Appliance & Merchandise Department in Bridgeport, Conn, last week. As fast as Washington could send telegrams, almost hourly, news of new cancelations flashed through the many divisions-no more bazookas, no more rocket launchers, no more B-29 gun turret parts, no more searchlights...
Sport stars usually fall faster than they rise, and Gunder (''The Wunder") Hägg fell with a thud on last winter's U.S. tour. One slow time win in five tries was the best he could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...