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Already aboard were 400 U.S. Naval officers, sailors, 300 Coast Guards. Working on her were 1,500 civilians. In the grand salon on the promenade deck, a workman with an acetylene torch cut through the last of four ornamental steel stanchions. So close to him that his back touched them as he worked were piled kapok life preservers, wrapped in tar paper and burlap...
...first suspicions of sabotage, Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third Naval District, made blunt reply. Said he: "The fire started . . . when a civilian worker . . . was using ah acetylene torch to remove an ornamental lamp from the salon wall. A spark from his torch apparently leaped into a pile of life preservers...
Kamins had wired the CRIMSON to bear the torch in behalf of his protegee, the petite cinema siren, whose optic-concealing hairdo has caused more barbers to close shop than the virtuosity of the celebrated gentleman of Seville...
Other recent additions to the language, from the Washington scene: The "Milk Route" is the daily round of visits a businessman makes trying to get a defense order, to 0PM, SPAB, OPA, ODT, War, Navy, Treasury and Agriculture Departments. A "Torch Bearer" is a sympathetic Government subordinate who actually takes up a case and follows it through...
...flaming torches carried by relays of Indian runners have been moving towards Mexico City from the jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...