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...soon haul it to the Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife gets water from the kitchen faucet. And the spigot will pour forth 300,000 barrels a day (more than one-fifth of the need of the Eastern area...
Horseshoe-Nail Gayle. In Newington, Conn., six-year-old Gayle Grant got out of bed for a drink of water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...
...King, students were rushed from room to room to give the monarch the impression that the school was packed. Dali declares that he was so infuriated by this insult to the King that he waited until the school was empty, locked himself in the sculpture classroom, turned the faucet on full force. Says Dali: "My idea was very simple: to cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly diluted, [it] was able to flow under the doors. Soon I could hear the sound...
Small World, California Division. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Elsie Joseph jumped out of the bathtub as a fish jumped out of the faucet. The fish died of hot water...
...effective will be shown this summer when a considerable number of PC units get to work. The men of the PC have firm faith; a lieutenant commander, veteran of the Battle of the Atlantic, audaciously predicted: "We'll turn off this Nazi submarine campaign like turning off a faucet...