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Governor Herbert Lehman of New York gave up tennis for the duration, added his tennis shoes to the family's scrap-rubber contribution. Also surrendered: the gubernatorial mansion's front door mat, a tire, a length of hose, galoshes, Mrs. Lehman's rain cape...
...obvious that the thought never occurred to them that they might soon be slaves of Nazi Germany. A few days ago a large section of the Cairo fire brigade, dressed in the finest robes, marched through the streets before and behind a shiny red hose wagon, on which rested a bedecked coffin...
...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
Hurry. In Gig Harbor, Wash., firemen roared to a small blaze, scrambled off the truck, attached the hose-one end to one hydrant, the other to another. While they struggled to get things straight, a bystander put the fire...
Nightmare. The story of the fire sounded like a carefully told bad dream. Hoses spewed weakly and went dry. Fire extinguishers failed. Someone tripped over and spilled a precious bucket of water. The man at the central fire-control station telephoned the bridge to sound a general alarm-the Coast Guardsman on duty there could not find the right switch (there were two switches but both had been disconnected). Donning gas masks, men tried to get into the smoke-filled salon, discovered that the gas masks did not work, retreated, gasping for air. An officer found some hose, frantically tried...