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...view of the manpower shortage, everybody wanted the women to work except Local 6. Regional Director James V. Bryant of the War Manpower Commission threatened to refer the quarrel right to Washington. Even the Treasury Department lent the women a helping hand: it offered shipyards 300 complete sets of washroom plumbing (scrapped from a hotel turned into a Treasury office building) for bigger and better Rainbow Rooms...
Last week Jew-baiting Dr. Malan lent very little gravity to his cause when he auctioned off his Cape Town home, Brandwag (Sentinel), for which he had paid ?4,400. He accepted a bid of ?7,900 from a Jewish merchant named Solomon Schach. Solomon Schach promptly made the South African score-of-the-week by giving the house the Yiddish name of Hashomer (Sentinel...
Rommel and his officers were very polite. They apologized for not having doctors on hand to care for the wounded among the prisoners. Rommel even lent the colonel his field glasses for a casual look around. Then he granted the gloomy Briton permission to make a farewell speech to his troops...
Cornfield Observatories. One outstanding amateur astronomer is Leslie Peltier, an Ohio draftsman, whose little observatory stands in his father's cornfield. He is such an able observer that professionals look to him as the No. 1 U.S. comet tailer, and both Harvard and Princeton have lent him instruments. Inspecting the whole sky piece by piece each month, Peltier has discovered seven comets, which are named after...
Before she took off, Atlantic Flyer Jim Mollison lent her his wrist watch, saying, "For God's sake, don't get it wet. Salt water would ruin the works." Author Markham kept the watch dry, but she cracked up in a Cape Breton bog. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eastwest. But even Author Markham could not fly the Atlantic every...