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Shopping. New York's Lord & Taylor opened a Store Door Canteen staffed with 60 A.W.V.S. girls to aid service men in the selection of Christmas gifts. While shopping the men get free cookies, cigarets, out-of-town newspapers, magazines, lounging space, game tables and buying advice. For 5? a portion they can get (from a 30-ft. bar) coffee, apple pie, Coca-Cola, milk and Scotch broth, served by singing waitresses. Filene's in Boston introduced self-service in its gift-wrapping department, invited buyers to take a tray, register for payment, do their gift wrapping themselves...
...swollen from 368,000 to 508,000 by war workers, has had twice as many arrests for drunkenness in six months as it had all last year. The city has its first successful burlesque house in 20 years. Customers stand in line at restaurants and theaters, pack the out-of-town roadhouses, keep the 25? slot machines clicking. Fourth Avenue and Pike Street, the hub of downtown Seattle, is often jampacked nearly 24 hours...
Request. In Wichita, Kans., the chief of police frowned over a note from out-of-town. "I am very much interested in capital punishment," it read. "Please send me some...
...more sweet-tasting rum, screaming at more cock fights, buying more radios and automobiles (when they can get them), using more telephones. The party was pepped up last November when all salaries were boosted 10 to 25% by law (in April minimums were set at $45 a month in towns, $39 out-of-town). The lid almost blew off in January when some 400,000 sugar workers had their wages hiked 50%. Part of these fat raises have since been wiped out by a 40 to 50% jump in living costs (mostly food...
...third time in its 42-year history the Philadelphia Orchestra failed to keep an out-of-town date. The causes on previous occasions: a blizzard, a railroad wreck. The cause this time: wartime shortage of sleeping cars to take it to Worcester, Mass...