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...third the Bull pups gained a 3 to 2 lead, but Mechem's brilliant solo leveled matters, and then the Crimson captain sent his team ahead with a score from a pile up in front of the cage. With three minutes to go Yale knotted the count at 4 to 4 and ten minutes of overtime left matters still undecided...
Sixteen government agencies-for planning, building and financing houses-were heaped together in a formless pile. Somewhere under all this trash was a record of eight years of peacetime housing bungling, of a year and a half of defense housing bungling. Hundreds of thousands of badly needed houses were still being drafted or just being argued about...
...Little Room. Many a port was deep last week in boxed planes, tanks and Lend-Lease food supplies awaiting cargo space. To avoid the pile-up of 1918, which led to the Government's taking over the railroads, WPB is building a chain of emergency depots near the coasts, where goods can be stored more safely than at dockside. In some defense areas, warehousemen have pooled facilities...
Sparks from his torch must have shot into the pile. Smoke puffed up. Flames spurted. Only two buckets of water were at hand. Workmen had to flee. From the deck outside they poked a hose through a window. A feeble stream had no effect. Fire licked along ceilings, cabin walls, panelings...
...Physical Fitness Director John B. Kelly has called golf and tennis essential to keep the nation fit. And since the U.S. is still adding-for the time being anyway-to its 650,000-ton rubber stock pile, sporting-goods manufacturers hoped they might be allowed some rubber after all-provided they can stretch...