Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australia's economy is out of joint, the barrel of Australia's limited manpower has been scraped to the bottom, every town and city is suffering from overcrowding, food shortages, lack of personnel in ordinary services. Domestic servants are as scarce as the platypus. It is a prospector's job to buy a package of cigarets or a glass of beer. The people's clothes are getting shabby. It is hard to buy simple things like matches and writing paper, impossible to buy golf or tennis balls, almost impossible to buy a razor blade...
Roll Out the Barrel. Near Helena, Mont., Carl Case's truck, full of beer, stalled on a mountain grade, rolled back ward, right into a picnic, overturned and tossed out Oase, who stayed...
...make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...
Slide Rule Symphony played "As Time Goes By," "Beer Barrel Polka," and "Deep in the Heart of Texas." Slide Rule Chaffee signalled the claps for "Deep in the Heart...
...Philadelphia Phillies' brand-new owner Bill Cox (TIME, July 5) last week fired one manager and hired another. Observers were far from certain why he dumped the successful 46-year-old boy wonder "Bucky" Harris for the barrel-chested old Brooklynite Freddy Fitzsimmons. But they were dead sure that he had done it badly...