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London fog, source of endless inspiration to cinema scriptwriters, is just a headache to season-ticket-holders (British for commuters). On the 20 to 40 days each winter when visibility falls below 200 yards, the Reading, Chelmsford and Maidstone trains creep along at 30 m.p.h., often wait 20 minutes at junctions, reach London as much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip...
About 70,000 warehousemen were made idle at once. Many industries, including the immense garment and printing trades, air-braked to a creep by lack of supplies and glutted by unmovable finished products, served notice of shutdowns if the tieup continued. Mayor William O'Dwyer stepped in with a settlement proposal- the magic 18½-an-hour raise. But the drivers, against the urgings of their union leaders, tossed it back to him as unacceptable...
Four of the painters in the show, Derain (66), Van Dongen (67), Segonzac (63), and Vlaminck (70), had been suspended from public showing for the past year (because they exhibited in Berlin during the war). Now their year of quiet humiliation was up, and the weary old foursome could creep into the daylight once again...
...come home full of wonderful stories, some funny, some sad as hell, and filled with new ideas on how to get an idea into the poor little heads. Then, after dishes, I start to work on next day's plans. At 10, or more frequently midnight, I creep to bed like a licked cur, only to dream of teaching. How I hate it and how I love...
...yarn was an allegory of conflicting Big Power attitudes in Eastern Europe. The Anglo-Americans contended that in the Russian-dominated countries one kind of dictatorship had replaced another. The Russians answered that if their Balkan regimes fell, the men who had welcomed the Nazis would creep back into power, just as "Duce" had reappeared on Trieste's rock...