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American Pep; A Tale of America's Efficiency
American Pep A Tale of America's Efficiency Author:A. Stone General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: The Robert J. Shores Corporation Description: Verso of t.p.: Complete manufacture by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 History / Military / World War I History / United States / General Notes: This is a black and wh... more »ite OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: was reliable. Every flash of the instrument was a stab. His knees knocked and his voice shook as he telephoned the message to Mr. Malcom. Only a hundred cases destroyed Halifax! -- and was it accident or design? Two thousand cases of it within pistol-shot! Dorn knew he was not the craven coward. But the disastrous holocaust unnerved him. The cause of the Allies and the Nation was at stake! This mountain town, so valuable to the Government, might meet the fate of Nova Scotia's biggest city at any moment, and it's time for every man to show -- At that moment he saw Betty Fraser, his assistant, coming to work. He struggled for composure. She need not get the shock -- not just yet, anyhow. Through the smoke grimed windows of the ticket office at Malcom, Jack Dorn, the station agent, looked out across the track toward Bald Eagle Canyon. His long, thin legs upheld a taut, healthy body, but the grip of his curled fingers indicated at that moment a stress of high nervous tension. He turned from the bay-window toward the girl operator who had just finished sending a message. Betty Fraser left the instrument andcame to Dorn's side. She, too, looked across the track in the direction of Bald Eagle Canyon. "This place is getting on my nerves," Dorn exploded. "It's plain hell!" The girl shivered. "Are you commencing to feel it too?" she said. "Commencing to feel it! I always...« less