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Back home, his wife told reporters that she was proud of "that wonderful lug...
...tabloid PM released the story of a gumshoe investigation, made weeks before the fire by Reporter Edmund Scott, a story which PM had suppressed at the time because it was "a blueprint for sabotage." Masquerading as a longshoreman, Scott had got a job with a crew hired to lug furniture ashore...
There were still some inadequacies. San Francisco asked the Office of Civilian Defense for $10,000,000 worth of equipment: 1,440 auxiliary pumping units for the fire department; 1,440 one-and-a-half-ton trucks to lug them around; 3,000,000 feet of fire hose; 700,000 gas masks; helmets; arm bands; whistles; 400 motorcycles...
...Wisconsin's dairy country, tank trucks lug thousands of gallons of milk in their stainless steel bellies, to plants where it is turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
...sugar-rationed England Princess Margaret Rose, who turned eleven, was presented with a birthday cake with no icing. ∙ ∙ Eleanor Roosevelt turned up at East Otis, Mass, wearing cotton stockings. ∙ ∙ Caddies at a Bar Harbor club went on strike, and Edsel Ford had to lug his own golf bag around the course. ∙ ∙ Madeleine Carroll asked the U.S. Government to hand back $9,092.55 in income taxes, claiming 51 little French refugees as dependents...