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...home front, too, has come through very little better. Here pettifogging tactics by Office of Censorship employees frequently annoy cooperative correspondents in the field of national news. In June a group of Washington pressmen made a 24-day tour of important war plants as the guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Accompanied by one Navy and six Army censors, the correspondents were forbidden to publish production figures that frequently appeared, fully covered, in local papers. At one plant they could not even mention the product manufactured, while it was being currently featured in a full-page magazine advertisement. Equally...
...head into the wind with their little fingers spread out over the windshield so that they won't be blown off. Of course, as we are operating a transport line, they behave themselves and don't pull any of the funny stuff their European cousins use to annoy pilots...
...which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke. Ahead of one cruiser loomed the battleship, a bare 6,000 yards away. Its forward turrets were a solid, orange wall of flame. The British gunners knew that their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours...
Children (like their elders) dislike brown book covers, unbroken pages of type, fine print. They often annoy their parents by ignoring old copies of The Jungle Book and Robinson Crusoe on the family bookshelves and bringing home from the library, as fresh discoveries, the same books-illustrated...