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...greater maneuverability, since the boat can be stopped on a dime, turned on a quarter. Hitherto, variable pitch propellers have not been practical for any boat larger than small launches...
Champagne in Portland. Nearly 50,000 men now earn $45-$115 a week in the shipyards at Portland, Ore. Nearby taverns do land-office business cashing shipworkers' checks on Thursday (for a dime or 20? fee), then selling them beer and the privilege of playing pinball machines. The Idle Hour Billiard Parlor cashes so many checks that it has installed a bullet-proof booth, with armed guards standing...
...category of the minority. You can't make Ham Fishes out of everybody in Congress. It's true before the war there was a hell of a lot of politics and backbiting, but don't forget this-the President got every bill and every damned dime that he asked for, and it always took a majority of Congress to give...
...Means Rubber. Rubber was inexpressibly precious. Citizens racked their brains for makeshifts: in New Jersey, Postman Charles Kaiser used dime-store shoe soles as recaps, got 1,200 miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
...ways & means to force the U.S. to use more silver at the over-inflated legal price of 71.11? per oz. (see p. 73), came up with a new gag last week: a silver "one-bit" piece, worth 12½?. The reason they gave was the alleged "danger" that dime-priced articles might soar to 15? for lack of an intermediate coin. Despite the "danger," the Treasury, mindful that eight billion pennies are in circulation, kept cool...