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Benzine Bathos. In Chicago, the Japanese Atomic Cleaners were featuring "Sudden Service...
Keep a sharp eye on that sixty-five bucks, Mac. Unless the President shows an unusual amount of political courage, there's going to be a sudden shortage in your purchasing power. The OPA extension bill is now before a joint House-Senate conference committee, and the only real issue lies between hiking the whole ceiling out of sight or shooting it full of holes...
...Bratislava last week, Slovak independence provided a test of his technique. During a soccer game between the Czech-Moravian team and the Slovak eleven, Slovak spectators took offense at two sudden Czech goals, injured several Czech players. The rioters were finally subdued with a fire hose...
Some trainmen grumbled that the strike was over-without all demands won. But all over the nation, just as quietly as they had climbed down, men in faded blue overalls now mounted their cabs again. Trainmen went back to work. The gloom in roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow glare from fire doors. By midnight, on almost all the 337 strikebound roads, locomotives drummed through the darkness with throttles back and Johnson bars in the corner. More slowly, freight trains took up their grinding journeys. In railroad stations lines reformed at ticket windows. Baggage appeared; redcaps toiled. The Government...
...figured every angle-nothing sudden to make the nation mad; the strike, as usual, to come in April when householders would not feel the pinch; no defiant demands (yet); a cause calculated to arouse some sympathy. Everyone knew that a miner's life was a wretched one, although John Lewis had never before made a fighting issue of welfare programs...