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...Screams tear the night and the wrecker crew claws into the wreckage with bare hands to get at the injured. A British surgeon is already inside doing something under a flashlight, something quite frightful with his kukris [Gurkha sword] after his morphine has stilled the screaming...
...shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed, and Shipowner Ray Milland, who is anything but. He gets her. In the end, poor Paulette, surrounded by dead and dying salvagers, wails: "This is all my doin...
There is plenty of scrap in the U.S.-abandoned automobiles rusting in wrecker graveyards, broken plows rusting in farmers' barns, old bedsprings and buckets lying on dumps at the edge of every small town. The problem is how to sort the scrap, compress it for shipping, move it to market...
...York's Polo Grounds, a powerful Fordham team-boasting two of the best backs in the country (Eshmont and Blumenstock) and a 220-lb. tackle (Kuzman) called "Little Sir Wrecker" because he injured several of his teammates during pre-season scrimmage-was outrushed and outsmarted by a going-to-town Alabama team...
...Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs." Comrade Eikhe, who quietly disappeared last summer, had done the same to the "accomplices...