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...courts came next. But Uncle Dan made the fur fly, got $8,233,000 from his old friend Jesse Jones, sold a ditch of a canal to PWA for $2,000,000, persuaded Congress to pass the Chandler Act, so astutely worded that it helped no other trunk line, but let B. & 0. cut its fixed charges...
What the crowd of onlookers saw was the biggest airplane ever built-not a flying super-powered trunk lid like the late Russian Maxim Gorky, with engine piled on engine to make up for rough design, but a flying machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared...
...registered in New York, then recently moved to Miami. While packing my trunk I discovered I am not of age. That...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...
...roads originally laid out for the camp were too narrow (16 feet); a fine system of 44-foot trunk roads is now abuilding. Traffic on the State highways between Fort Bragg and Fayetteville got into fatal snarls. Until General Devers put his military police on the job, deaths on the highway averaged one every four days. Temporary hospital quarters in the brick barracks were sloppy makeshifts. Four locomotives, shunted on to nearby sidings, last week provided steam heat for an uncompleted hospital...