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...Editor smiles and says he will fix that. And he does. He gets me a grey pin-striped suit, double-breasted, with shoulders that I can grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...
...fix the blame for the flop of the program, Senator Clyde Martin Reed, chairman of the Senate's transportation subcommittee, called car builders and railmen to Washington this week. But an investigation would hardly stretch the bottleneck fast enough. And a hard winter would squeeze down and close many a plant. The likeliest solution was Government allocation of steel. Though they dread the effect allocation would have on their markets, many steelmakers, who need cars as badly as anyone to haul coal and ore, privately thought that allocation was the only...
Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
From that moment, the improbable became the possible: the unpredictable Dodgers had a chance. Anything could happen: the Dodgers even tried to make the Lavagetto lightning strike twice. The Dodgers were in a fix again next day. Joe DiMaggio had slammed his second homer of the Series into the upper tier of the center-field stands, and the Yanks were leading. With two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had the tying run on second base. Pinch-Hitter Cookie Lavagetto stepped up to the plate-and struck out. Now the Yankees were in the lead, three games...
...also asked that the College take "all possible steps" to get men out of the makeshift dormitory quickly, but declined to fix responsibility until he had made a further investigation of the matter...