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...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
...plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard of living. I never ate like this before in my life...
...samovars, rode in troikas, and were chased by wolves. A man with a very long name wrote a book about how crime does not pay. They there was Russian music, the Nutcracker Suite, 1812 Overture, and some man who wrote just recently about Leningrad burning down--he was a fireman or something. Vag realized his acquaintance with Russian life was limited, but he might as well get off to a good start. He turned down Dunster Street. The best introduction to Russian would undoubtedly be a bottle of vodka...
News from other track fronts, showed that Captain Don MacKinnon at the Buffalo Fireman's meet, had reached one of the high points in his high career, taking a first in the high hurdles, and a second in the low. Whitey Hald of Michigan Normal split with MacKinnon, taking a second in the highs, and a first in the lows. The winning time in the high hurdles was 15.5, a second more than the Harvard record set by Don Donahue, and 1.6 seconds more than Hlad's record time. The time in the low hurdles was 25.2 seconds, and both...
...experience parallels in many respects that of the disgusted officer. Hired as a -Name withheld by request. fireman to safeguard the ship against welders' sparks, I consider myself valuable for about 20% of the working day. . . . Workmen string out the hours exchanging stories, sneaking smokes, sizing up jobs and bumping noggins. A passing boat or plane apparently justifies time off to estimate cargo, judge tonnage and type, etc., etc. . . . Recently, having sighted no sparks from welding operations atop a gun platform, I investigated to find a six-man crap game in hot progress. Most explanations revert to a common...