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Most perennially disgusted group of U. S. stockholders are those who own railroad shares. Long familiar facts: a third of U. S. railroad mileage is insolvent or in the courts. Another third operates in a twilight zone halfway between receivership and solvency, periodically sparked by RFC handouts. Only the top third of U. S. rails (some of them, like the gilt-edged Union Pacific, heartbreakers to earlier generations of stockholders) pay steady dividends...
...minutes old, but their beloved Big Red had already crossed Columbia's goal line once, had just intercepted a Columbia pass, and there they were on the visitors' 20-yd. line. Go they did - for another touchdown in the second quarter, two more in the third. As twilight settled above Cayuga's waters, Cornell had scored its fifth straight victory this season...
America lives today in a twilight zone that is neither peace nor war, and the light is fading fast. Though the words still pass current, yesterday's sharp distinctions between "peace and war," "neutrality and belligerency," "interventionist and isolationist" no longer hold any meaning. While the recognition of this fact eliminates the old clear-cut opposites as a framework for debate, it opens up a host of new and subtler choices, centering about the nature and extent of our participation...
...This Time. . . ." But Frank Jackson bungled. Like Trotsky, he had lived in the twilight world of conspiracy. A peasant or a worker would have known that to knock a man out, you have to put your weight behind a blow. The pick was sharp. It cut through Trotsky's skull, but the blow was not hard enough. Trotsky did not slump, did not even realize that he had been hit on the head. He thought he had been shot. He leaped from his chair, grappled with his assailant, bit his hand. Even with a knife and a pistol...
...hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight above Dover...