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Scott himself has a rare background for talking about Russia, Communist scheming and Soviet thinking. In 1932, he decided to leave the University of Wisconsin and to learn something about the Soviet experiment by going prepared himself by taking a welder's course in the U.S., then worked as a welder and chemist at the Siberian industrial center of Magnitogorsk, married a Russian girl there. Then he spent several years in Moscow as a correspondent for the London News Chronicle and the French news agency Havas. In 1941 he wrote a series of articles about the growing friction between...
...atom bomb which fell from the Great Artiste at exactly 11:03 a.m. was far more powerful than that which had fallen on Hiroshima three days previously. Looking down on Nagasaki, Sergeant Raymond C. Gallagher of Chicago, wearing welder's goggles to protect his eyes, saw three "shock circles" rising through the boiling-up column of smoke, flame and dust. In that instant one-third of the city, including the Mitsubishi steel plant, had been destroyed. Engulfed in the explosion were 252,000 people, 36,000 of whom died, and 40,000 of whom were seriously injured...
...country milkmaid in the County Kerry village of Lispole, a speck on the map not far from Tralee, wrote of raising a greyhound, of playing a few parts on the stage at Killarney, of hoping some day to teach Frank the hornpipe. Frank, who was now an arc welder, wrote that he had sold his 1941 automobile, cashed in his war bonds and was setting aside $80 a month until he had enough for an airplane trip to County Kerry...
...over to see his friends in the Estelle Machine Shop. There he talked and drew diagrams. That night, the Estelle gang worked until 4 in the morning, cutting and welding a nine-foot, piece of six-inch oil-well casing into a North Pole. As a final touch, a welder took his torch and wrote on the steel: "North Pole by Stan." Next day, Stan and his friends lugged the 300-pound pole over to a sign company, got it enameled with gleaming red and white spirals. The ball was painted blue...
...with the same names. Hawkins chirped that Dixon had maligned him editorially, by accusing the district attorney's staff of "legal double-talk," for failing to back the crusade. Apparently, the charges of "defamation" of other officials had an equally flimsy basis. Said P.A.G. President George Buchanan, a welder: "This is a fight to see whether the racketeers or the law-abiding citizens will run Calcasieu Parish...