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...coastal areas there were legitimate runs on goods which became suddenly important. In Los Angeles, demand for flashlights and candles was 200 times normal; stores were nearly cleaned out. Portable radios sold fast; so did garden hose, useful against incendiary bombs...
Aroused at what semed like imminent death for "The Mole," a hairy comic striper currently tunnelling his way through the Dick Tracy series, the Adams Hose "Mole First Committee" dispatched the following telegram yesterday to Chester Gould, creator of the strip...
...material that Burgess had to use to get his speed-and-footing effect: aluminum. The Navy could not have had a seemingly good design thrown at it at a worse time, when aluminum supply (and magnesium, needed for alloy) is as strictured as the flow from a 1919 garden hose...
...Army game was a disgusting spectacle, when all the roughs of the region invaded the field, spoiled the game, and destroyed the goalposts. Why the College should sit fatly by and watch the riot, I cannot understand. Could not a couple of hundred students, or police with fire-hose, be mobilized to guard the field and posts? Or could not the posts be electrified so as to shock any who touched them, even to the extent of fixing the touchers to the posts, so that all could be carted down to the River and thrown in? Or perhaps best...
...right to be-in museums, cloisters, churches and administrative buildings. . . . The other 3,000 mines were found where one could expect them-at railway emplacements and other points .which the Russians expected Germans to occupy. . . . The Russian forces had taken the fire department with them, including personnel, trucks and hose...