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...Guest Star: "... A temperamental Hollywood glamor girl. . . . Her agent demands that the guest star's last three pictures, Zombie in the Oven, Chuck Wagon Clarisse, and She Couldn't Say Maybe, be mentioned in the dialogue...
...sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
Carrying two reels of 3/4 inch high pressure hose, the fog wagon can pump 60 gallons of water per minute through two gun type nozzles. "Turning disks inside the nozzles," White said "atomize the water and create a stream of fog which extends 20 feet." In especially close work the fireman can turn on a protective spray which provides a water shield. A five ton winch which can be used to pull down walls and for hauling cars out of rivers is another feature of the new engine...
...went to work in a barbershop when he was twelve, as a wobbler's boy (in charge of lathering the customers). Then he became a grocer's helper; all evening he would fill his little wooden wagon with goods, and at midnight he started his laborious deliveries to the scattered cottages on the mountainside; at the edge of town a small, bespectacled man would meet him and help him pull the heavy load. It was his father, who always tried to make things easier...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...