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Trouble on the Way. In New York, the rail jam was the worst. Huge drifts stalled trains in the open country. Passengers had to wade through drifts to nearby farmhouses to spend the night. State troopers went along the highway dynamiting 14-ft. drifts, clearing the roads so that emergency auto caravans could get through with feed for livestock and food for isolated villages and farms. Improvised or ancient sledges turned up in the streets...
...last the crush was so bad that customs officers asked Windsor police to detain U.S. shoppers until the jam on the Detroit side cleared. Then they were released in groups of 50 aboard the Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus. On the U.S. side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...posse of Washington landlords offered to accommodate the Senator. (They were probably not aware that his family also owns a saxophone, clarinet, guitar, trombone and piano because they "like to sit around after supper and have a jam session...
Refreshed by a couple of hours at the cinema, the barrel-chested, slightly bandylegged churchman rode home on a jam-packed London underground train. As he left the underground, he linked arms with his wife and strode rapidly toward the red-&-black Tudor buildings of Fulham Palace, his residence as Lord Bishop of London...
...cooed an announcer, "as soon as [our] broadcast is over." He pointed out that his little listeners could thus "restore their vitality ... by going to bed as soon as possible," and could make their radio sets last longer "by giving them rest." (Just to make sure, Japan tried to jam the Saipan broadcasts...