Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...undersigned, A. C. Hampson, do hereby swear that prior to any report, suggestion or recommendation from Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki or any of his associates, I asked Mr. Maull to eliminate whatever actual waste of supplies he could, throughout the plant, specifically mentioning the seemingly excessive use of paper towels...
...leaves of the B. E. F. were canceled. The public was exhorted to "exercise every economy" in the use of fuel. The stores were shy of fresh meat. Water was cut off here & there. "Something" happened to the pipes at Buckingham Palace and it was said that for a whole day His Majesty King George VI had to forego a bath. London suburbanites took hours to get to & from work...
Three weeks ago, in Lufkin, Tex., the Daily News went on the street printed throughout on Southern-pine newsprint. It was the first newspaper ever to use a commercially made Southern-pine paper. Last week the Dallas Morning News followed suit, ran off an edition on 35 tons of Southern newsprint. By week's end, seven carloads of the paper Dr. Herty labored to perfect had been delivered to the Morning News press rooms...
With new machinery and the Hupp dies installed, the West Warren Avenue plant was expected to start manufacturing next week. Hupp will make its own motors. Graham will use Hupp dies for some of its own cars, make Hupp bodies and assemble Hupps. On hand were orders for 1,500 to 2,000 Hupps and Grahams. Top 1940 production was set at an optimistic 40,000 Grahams, 20,000 Hupps...
Richard Llewellyn is one more of those writers who love their common native speech and who use it with a sensuous efficiency which, in its verbal splendor, its folksy lilt and whine, approaches literary affectation. Yet in this, his first published novel (he has destroyed five), he has developed a hypnotic ability to do precisely what he pleases. His Morgans, those they live among, the country they inhabit, every incident, every reflection Huw Morgan ventures on the whole matter, have an even radiance and euphony plus a rock-bottom tangibility. If it be only would-be great How Green...