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Wood explained that Hershey's order merely meant that local boards should exhaust any surpluses of eligible 21 year olds before they induct younger men. Men with 2AS classifications, he assured the CRIMSON, would remain unaltered until the period for which the deferment was given had expired...
...turn out a new unsinkable, all-steel 26-ft. pleasure cruiser. Built with two large steel air tanks under its cockpit deck, it stays afloat and can run on its own power even when full of water. Its engine is sealed in a watertight compartment with a snorkel-type exhaust. Price: $7,000, about $1,000 more than sinkable boats of similar design...
Another gripe was the refrigerators. All refrigerators in the project are gas, and sit directly below wooden cabinets. Several occupants claim that the exhaust has been so hot they were forced to put asbestos pads on the cabinet bottoms...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
Delivery Boy. For five years after Price took over Solar, and switched from making planes to engine parts, the company stayed deep in the red. Price collected no salary, whittled his staff down to six employees, and worked in the shop helping make exhaust manifolds for plane engines. He often delivered the manifolds in his car, then raced back, cash in hand, to meet his tiny payroll. To make ends meet, he turned out frying pans, book ends and metal panels for trucks. But when stainless steel was developed in the early '30s, Solar was the first...