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...Order." In 1930 Father Koczan returned to Szombathely after four years' service with Hungarian immigrants in Ohio. First he organized a new parish. Next he built a new church, one of the city's best. The passing years brought white to his crew-cut hair, and townsfolk of Szombathely placed their faith in him. The day after Cardinal Mindszenty was locked up, the Communist iron claw reached out for Father Koczan...
...hungered for an automobile and couldn't get one, Robert L. Knetzer was the man to see. At the famine's wartime worst and later, when the new models appeared, townsfolk of Edwardsville, Il11. (pop. 8,100) noticed that strapping Bob Knetzer was a miracle man at finding cars for people with cash. What's more, he sold them at list price, and delivered them in 30 to 90 days. All he demanded was a deposit of at least $1,000. Cadillacs and Chevrolets were his specialties...
...largest part of the crowd were students from the University and Radcliffe, but there was a heavy sprinkling of Faculty members, as well as small groups of interested townsfolk. Almost without exception, they joined in the general disapproval of the Barnes bill...
...along the route (see map), townsfolk dropped whatever they were doing to watch the tour go by. Fans encouraged and refreshed their favorites in the customary manner: by dumping buckets of water on their heads. In efficient Belgium, fire hoses were used. As the tour approached a town, police immobilized all traffic in the vicinity. Factories shut down. In Strasbourg, the Communist Par ty temporarily suspended its congress. Something like ten million people along the route saw the race...
...Daingerfield, Tex. (pop. 1,700) the townsfolk were as excited as if a 10,000-barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed...