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...Chief for use in an emergency-and print California's 130,000 copies on the spot at one of the West Coast's most progressive printers, the Adcraft Co. And we will use paper manufactured right on the Pacific Coast, to lighten still further the load on the transcontinental railroads...
...conference was very short, about ten minutes. Nothing searching was asked. We used to stand outside and load those questions like a Continental's musket, with all the old iron, broken glass and pointed rocks we could find - then march in and fire both barrels. But this was all polite ness and punctilio and namby-pamby questions. Reporters who used to ask questions like rusty razor blades now seemed to figure: with all he has on his shoulders, should I really do this to him? The old rough- & -tumble give-& -take is another wartime casualty...
...insult the Copacabana's boss ("He can't even spell da name!"). He may insult the menu ("Dere goes a load of ice with three olives. Twelve-fifty for dat load. Somebody's got to pay for da cocktail room!"). He may insult labor when a busboy knocks over a chair ("He's gotta pick it up. No one else can touch it. Union!"). He may challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every...
...railroads, straining under their backbreaking load of seven billion passenger-miles monthly, have driven their men and equipment close to the breaking point. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission underlined the toll that the nation is paying...
There are two other groups besides the construction men: stevedore battalions, who load and unload supplies; and maintenance units, who service the bases which their colleagues have built...