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...company suggested a mechanical idea which, it claimed, would save a third of the gas consumed by any healthy car. It sounded simple: just shut off half the cylinders (alternate ones in the firing order) by permanently closing intake and exhaust valves, closing the spark plug gaps, adjusting the carburetor to fit the decreased flow of fuel, etc. Five standard six-and eight-cylinder cars thus adjusted and road-tested for as much as 5,000 miles showed no mechanical damage or abnormal oil consumption. The company admitted that much gear shifting was necessary at low speeds and on hills...
America's gayest graveyard began a new broadcast last fortnight (Bible readings) with a new announcer, Scottish-burred Bill Hay, announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...
...Hard-set reinforced concrete makes the best plug-a two-inch steel pipe lowered into the hole, and packed inside and out with cement. But concrete that is not reinforced can be drilled out like the filling of an old tooth...
...award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before the British withdrew, Beattie and a number of other Commando-men were captured, have languished since in a prison camp. One of them, Lieut. Colonel Augustus Charles Newman, in a regular installment of his Barbed Wire Diary...
...familiar to the U.S. soldier as a birdcall to a country-boy, a subway rattle to a New Yorker. It does not spell mother, but it may spell home. Nevertheless, unless the yum-yum is taken out of some short-wave commercials, it looked as if the Plug Shrinkers club could count on a big AEF membership...