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That siren you heard the other noon was a squad car on the way to south Matthews to clear up a traffic jam in the hall caused by James Guinn Zea III describing bull fights as she is run off in Ma-hi-ko. The guy simply needs more room, than that for his descriptive narrating. Incidentally, wonder when he's going to start speaking good old United States again? . . . he and John Vlahos and Carl Fisher and Ed Weilepp...
...Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom of its whiskey barrel: out-of-towners from the drought-struck sticks (plus jam-packed local bars) drained away almost all of New York City's bottled-in-bond...
...rationing began last spring, the small Dixie Market in little Ypsilanti, Mich. (1940 pop. 12,000), hard by the Willow Run bomber plant, has done a big city business. For 10½| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week. Yet the store has never collected a ration stamp from a customer. For the Dixie Market deals only in unrationed groceries...
Last week it looked as if Britain's Professor Alexander Fleming had discovered the greatest therapeutic drug of all time. Not since penicillin became a wonder drug in 1941 has it made such news. A jam-packed session of the American Public Health Association's meeting in Manhattan heard the Public Health Service's Dr. John F. Mahoney announce that penicillin had apparently cured four cases of early syphilis. The penicillin treatment lasted eight days. The standard treatment takes 18 months. (The one-and five-day treatments with artificial fever and drugs, though sometimes dramatic, are still...
Troops aboard the Queen Mary are fed twice daily, consuming 73 tons of food a day. They sleep Box & Cox on deck, in hammocks and in cramped holds, shoot craps on any cleared deck space. Officers and official passengers are jam-packed into the choicer cabins; nothing less than an ambassador can hope to get space to himself...