[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about BSO Reservations for Death (Duncan Mcclain Mystery #9

  • From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:08:03 -0500

Hi Chris, the » should be replaced with a period.

When I see that error show up in scans, it usually seems to indicate that the OCRing program couldn't figure out a character so it put the » in sort of as a place holder.

Hope that helps. smile.

Judy s.
Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese <https://twitter.com/QuackersNCheese>
On 10/3/2015 8:52 PM, Christopher Zeigler wrote:

Hello Judy S Thank you for answering my last question
Ok I have a question I am working has
I thank scan error what do you think » I put a star before the sentence.

75
Railroad tracks direct to his plant could carry his finished products to the side of ocean-going ships at Jersey City or Hoboken. His mammoth trucks could perform the same function, speeding over broad highways kept open all year.
There was high-grade New Jersey iron ore right in Pasaic County, but the mines had been neglected. Suffolk technicians developed improved methods of mining and smelting and put them into production again.
*
Two adjacent woolen mills were bought and razed. Steadily the Suffolk plant began to grow» The iron-ore storage yard was tripled in capacity. More stacks appeared on the powerhouse. A coke plant bristled with structures, looking like some skeleton nightmare city on its own. A pipe and tube mill was built; a billet and bar mill; a rolling mill; soaking pits; a stripper building and a water-treatment plant of most modern design.
So the title of Suffolk Roller Bearings had really become a misnomer. It was a steel plant in toto, capable of making every kind of steel from the ore itself-carbon steel, tool steel and alloy. In addition to the open hearths, it had electric furnaces and Bessemer converters, and the even more modern turbo-hearth furnaces developed after World War II. It could turn out practically everything from an eighty-seven-inch-wide steel plate, to be used as the skin of an ocean liner, to a bearing or a single nail.
Passaic is the Indian word for peaceful valley. There was nothing peaceful about it to the captain's sensitive ears. Nor to his sense of smell. Noise had assailed him when the Cadillac was still a half a mile away from the high cyclone fence topped with barbed wire that completely surrounded the company's property. The noise had


Other related posts: