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...lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent...
...Sundays" recalled World War I days, when Sunday driving became treasonous, children stoned cars, and pedestrians yelled "slacker" at any driver who ventured out. Since then the Sunday ride has become a major U.S. recreation. Washington, in 1941, shrank from spoiling it, preferred a straight rationing system which would fix the amount of gasoline a consumer could buy each week, permit him to use it whenever he pleased...
This week, Mrs. Groenewegen moved, stamp and stamper, into the new building. Ralston rose up, called a protest meeting, sent a petition to Postmaster General Walker, asking for a 90-day stay, promising to fix up the old premises. Mrs. Groenewegen, invited to the meeting, sent word she was "too busy...
...bribed to go along the pipeline, dig a hole, build a fire and when the pipe gets hot, shoot a hole. The geyser of oil catches fire. The British-French-American oil people have airport and hospital stockades every 60 miles - send out repair men by airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch dealer-built...
...main reason for the big poundage rise is heavy machinery and instruments. To fix a broken Navy power shovel, Illinois' Buda Company recently air-expressed a 750-lb. Diesel engine crankshaft 7,826 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific; Aluminum Co. of America rushed 1,207 lb. of aluminum from Pittsburgh to California to avoid an aircraft production...