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Beane, N. P. '44; Beard, G. B.; Beck, Borden, F.; Beer, E. T.; Berk, R. G.; Bigham, R. N.; Bird, C. D.; Bittner, J. F.; Blake, G., Jr.; Brosius, O. C.; Burr, B. M.; Burroughs...
...vapor explosions, and to drain off excess heat with flangelike cooling fins. To drain off the heat was the tough problem. England's Bristol works whittles fins in forged heads at tremendous expense. In the U.S. a less costly scheme was adopted. Heads were cast in a bird's nest of sand patterns. Hundreds of nails, each hand-placed, held the sand in form while the metal was poured...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...
Because only six of the Dresser melodies (best: My Gal Sal, Wabash, The Convict and The Bird) were considered sufficiently undated, Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger turned out four new tunes. Any or all of them (Here You Are, Oh, The Pity Of It All, Me and My Fella, On The Great White Way) should be best-seller-bound...
Meanwhile Francis Biddle's agents became busier than bird dogs. Silver Shirt Pelley was not the only bird they flushed. Several native-born Axis lovers were on the list...