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���The crane can pick up and transplant five tons of twisted steel as eas-ly as a nurse can lift a babv from a perambulator. When the great tentacle-like hook descends, chams and ropes are broueht into play, and slowly, surely, almost daintily, the crane swings the wreck toone side If it cannot be lifted it is burned or blown up. The price of a cargo of autoniobiles is nothing compared with a five-hour delay or the disruption of a railroad s tram schedule

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