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Signs of the times take many forms. Last week thousands of normal U. S. adults-the kind who vote against war in Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
Norway was a fish of a different scale. If Herr Hitler accomplishes his conquest of Norway, he will have an immediate economic liability on his hands. Like Denmark, Norway is an economic specialist. Her specialty is export of natural resources. She exports timber, pulp, cellulose; iron ore, pyrites, copper, nickel, molybdenum; fish, whale oil-products which Germany...
...about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father. She remembered she did not have a nickel for a pay phone...
...thought about asking someone for a nickel but lost my nerve and finally went back to the neighbor's house." She telephoned from there...
...Waukegan, Ill. last week, a stage show started on its rounds billed as Uncle Tom's Cabin in Swing. The swing was all there, in a noisy, nickel-in-the-slot sort of way; but Uncle Tom's Cabin was not. In his 87 years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...