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...Feathered Friends. Over Manhattan a chicken hawk peeled off, dived into the Bowery, strafed a stooping street cleaner from the rear. In Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...
...Southern Pacific employed two women as blacksmiths' helpers. Union Pacific got its first woman engine cleaner, brakeman, tie cutter and turntable operator...
From now on the bootblack, the mortician, the laundry man, the upholsterer, the locksmith, the cleaner and the garageman around the corner-to mention a few-can charge no more for their services than they did last March.- OPA so ordered last week as it slapped ceilings over just about everything the law allows, brought 1,000,000 retail "commodity service" establishments and $5 billion-worth of business under price control...
...reporter found him beside his street cleaner's can, brushing off the northwest corner of 61st Street and 20th Avenue. Scholar Goldstein greeted him with a professional outdoorsman's observation: "The average citizen doesn't realize it, but already some leaves are falling...
...Goldstein attended evening classes for seven years. He plans to go on studying for a Ph.D. and become a teacher. Meanwhile he will clean streets (until he gets an appointment as a U.S. junior economist, for which he passed a Civil Service examination). Said Street Cleaner Goldstein: "I know the job hasn't the requisite prestige for social standing in the eyes of the public, but it's honest travail...