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...studying the characteristics of the country these Army Engineers are working to make air ports "not any muddier than they have to be in the wet seasons of the year...
...choked back a wet sob. All he could see around him were pools of red ink. He felt himself slipping down into them. Mosky, he wailed, dont' put in any more. But all he could see was the face leering at him over the edge of the bowl, and he felt himself slipping down...
Probably no U.S. editor is quite so tough, colorful, eloquent, prolific and unmindful of editorial niceties as 65-year-old, 185-pound Frederick Sullens of the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News. His paper is 50 years old this week and for 38 of those 50 years has come wet from the presses bristling with Sullens' own pugnacious personality. He is perhaps the only survivor of the old Southern-womanhood-must-be-defended school of journalism, whose exponents backed up their words with their fists and divided all office visitors into two classes: 1) those without horsewhips; 2) those with...
Worst hit was the Pittsburgh steel, coal, big-muscles area. The Ohio reached 36 ft., climbing at the rate of two licking inches every wet hour. The Allegheny lipped over and poured cold, dirty water onto the highways and down mine shafts-where sneezing pumps fought for a while and then gave up trying to keep the pits dry. The coal cars stood empty under a pewter sky . . . miles of them on the rights of way as coal mines sent their men home to salvage drenched belongings. Altogether 50,000 people felt the flood in their homes...
...wet and soggy earth of North Africa the preliminaries of a final and decisive campaign were being more laboriously worked...