William Wister Haines

Story of the men who put up high tension electric wires. After four years of the Depression, Jig and Beckett and their pal Shelly are at work on a big electric railroad job. Things go smoothly until Shelly begins to take an interest in their landlady's daughter. That and the arrival of Arthur, the super-mechanic, bring the story to a climax.

[Border incident]: The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder. [His kind of woman]: Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. [Lady in the lake]: Philip...