Barney rumped him out to the step, but the kid hung onto the door. Wind roared into the cab. Cold. Slicing up Barney's trouser's legs, pressing his shirt. The rig's heavy treads machinegunned the pavement.

What came instead over the following years were many of the same projects delivered individually to little-by-little add capacity.

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