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Riding back to London on the train from Dover, Eleanor Roosevelt knitted busily on a blue and white baby blanket, explaining to reporters that it should have been finished long ago. An English girl reporter, exhausted from the day's trip, finally asked the First Lady if she ever relaxed, slept late, or forgot her obligations. "Not since I can remember," said Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...
...York City's old, discarded elevated railroad cars were bought by the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, N.J. to be used as a shuttle service in the 2,500-acre reservation, to save tires...
Most U.S. installations are recent. Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N.J., piped music through its sewing-machine building last fall. Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego began broadcasting lunchtime entertainment to its 39,000 workers in December. Last week the Brooklyn Navy Yard put into use a newly installed sound system. This week Todd Shipyards Corp. began noon-hour dance-band concerts in its Brooklyn and Hoboken yards...
...admit that its 50 U.S. destroyers had saved it from defeat in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1940; the receivers of Bundles for Britain, thought Americans the most generous people in the world. Little U.S. influences were all over England: movies, the tune The White Cliffs of Dover, most popular song in England; even Chicago pinball machines in London's penny arcades. The Briton-in-the-street, from constantly gazing at the menus of Hollywood, believed Americans the most fabulous doers and makers of all time. He would always prefer his Britain, just as it was; but some...