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...House so many Congressmen rushed alibis into print that the galleries wondered if anybody had been present when the bill was up. Uprose Illinois' blonde, blue-eyed Jessie Sumner, to pin the blame on Georgia's patient Robert Ramspeck, the bill's sponsor. Miss Sumner had not known that the bill provided pensions for Congressmen; why hadn't Ramspeck said...
...first meeting of the movie series was held on Monday evening, when "Link and Pin", a film dealing with one of the two remaining two-foot guage lines, was shown...
...find an unexploded bomb, always pick it up and shake like hell (maybe the firing pin is stuck). If that doesn't work, heave it in the furnace. (The Fire Department will come and take care of things.) If an incendiary bomb is found burning in a building, throw gasoline on it. (You can't put it out anyway, so you might just as well have a little fun.) . . . Always get excited and holler bloody murder. (It will add to the fun and confusion and scare hell out of the kids.) . . . If you should be the "victim...
...headlines and speeches and buttons and proclamations had brought it closer and closer; everybody had seen it coming. He might have known the vacations would change, like all else. He would have to change, too, would Vag; he'd develop a stern and realistic attitude and wear a V pin and make sacrifices, because everyone else was. What could he do to help--take a First Aid course maybe, or donate a pint of blood? Brrr! He didn't like the idea of a big, thick needle jabbed in his arm. But here it was--brave new year, brave...
Simple to produce, guayule rubber has never before got out of the pin-money class, mainly because it costs 12-15? a Ib. v. 5-10? for plantation rubber. It is too soft to replace tree rubber completely in the vast tire and inner-tube market, is chiefly used (especially by Goodrich) for impregnating the cotton strands in belting, shoes, raincoats, etc. Hence Intercontinental has never produced more than 5,000 tons a year (less than 1% of U.S. consumption); it has lost money in eight of the last twelve years; its 1940 profits were only $324,000, about...