Word: tilling
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...production dropped anyhow, mainly because there were no rail cars to haul the coal to the freezing cities. On top of this, a temporary food shortage was on the way in many an Eastern city. Freight trains as far west as California were shunted on to sidings to wait till the snarl untangled. While they waited, many a grocer cleaned out his shelves...
...peacemakers met in a conference room near Athens. On the hearth a synthetic fire glowed-electric lights under hunks of glass coal. The delegates were aglow too, the talks were cordial. Over a variegated tablecloth the debate went on amiably till after midnight. Later pro-Russian Sofianopoulos swapped yarns with pro-Russian Siantos about old times when they had both been exiled by Dictator John Metaxas...
...only three more reports till finals. Think of it, only one due each Saturday, for the next three weeks. Oh, happy, happy, fun-time. The recent snow has again given the boys (accent on the first syllable) on the fourth deck new life. The not-to-be-divulged exploits of Kirby G. (for Gadabout) Pickle and Randolph C. for a middle name that he won't discuss) Phillips took a turn for the better after our return shavers left the Boston Buddies Club . . . little hot around here boys...
These and many other sights filled another week of patient waiting on the part of all concerned--waiting till Keith Miller can persuade Prof. "Bill" Cunningham to give one of his inimitable train imitations...
...fourth transcontinental airline last week. Northwest Airlines got permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board to extend its present route, from Seattle to Milwaukee, all the way to New York, via Detroit. But Northwest's tough, ambitious president, Croil Hunter, 51, will not be able to bite his plum till he can get some six or seven more planes-probably DC-3s at first-to fly the new route. As other transcontinental routes are overloaded, Hunter hopes that this will not take long...