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That day Humorist Perelman acquired not only Bijou Lass but two other cows to keep her company. When they arrived at Rising Gorge, his Bucks County (Pa.) farm, his wife took one look and turned a "dusty vermilion." He started to explain, "but the poor creature, irrational as only her sex can be, caught up a nest of flowerpots and was trying to get my range. I spent the night doubled up in a feed bin, listening to the mammoths eating me into bankruptcy. ... To date, they have tucked away twelve bales of hay, five blocks of salt and three...
...were up one-third, and will rise another $167 million this year. Wages, boosted 16? an hour last week for the roads' 1,300,000 workers, have increased almost 48% since Pearl Harbor. Without the rate increase, the roads said, they could not buy new equipment, like the vermilion-and-grey streamlined Pacemaker freight train (with panel smoke deflectors on the locomotive) which the New York Central is starting between New York and Niagara Falls. Nor could they avoid a loss this year...
...idle along the coal and ore railroads-the Pennsy, the Bessemer & Lake Erie, the C. & O. Work would soon slacken in limestone quarries, zinc smelters, silica diggings. Barge traffic thinned as the tires were banked along the Monongahela, the Allegheny, the Ohio Rivers. Snow lay undisturbed on the great, vermilion open pits of the Mesabi Range...
Joseph Stalin suddenly got a patter of backslaps from a number of thoughtful U.S. citizens: two men in swampy Vermilion Parish, La. took out a $25 war bond in his name, planned to send it to him; the residents of Newton, Mass, sent $1,300 worth of bonds to him "and the Russian people"; and 76-year-old S. Kent Costikyan, Manhattan's rug king, proposed in a letter to the New York Times that somebody give him some sort of honorary degree...
...national championships, Newport has been queen of the circuit. The first tournament consisted largely of local swells spooning English balls gently over the net for a hundred-odd spectators, be-boatered or be-parasolled. But by 1890 the Casino Governors had transplanted an old Barnum & Bailey grandstand, painted vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since out of date) that "the fact of being a tennis player is . . . held to be proof that a man is a gentleman...