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Nearby filling-station attendants complained that their washrooms were clogged with naked Witnesses taking sponge baths. Mechanics sweated without charge over the creaking chariots of fellow zealots. Free haircuts were dispensed by an amateur barber who was thoughtful enough to bring along an electric clipper. Payless chefs, cooking in tin-plated oil drums and 600-gallon kettles, ladled out 75,000 meals...
...serviceman is not around on payday, he misses his pay. If he is on maneuvers, home on furlough or traveling, he may go payless for months till his records catch up with him. Last week the Navy came up with a remedy...
...Harmon shrugged his shoulders. Unlike many big-time college football stars who major in physical education, he has primed himself for a radio career. As part of his radio course, he had conducted a payless 15-minute Saturday-morning sport program over a local Ann Arbor station. Last week, while he was being named for all the All-Americas in the land and showered with all the post-season trophies "for the most outstanding player of the year," Tom Harmon was far more excited over an invitation to appear for pay as guest star with Comedian Eddie Cantor...
...Stettinius strode into the lobby of Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned out at maximum speed...
...weathered even the worst (sic) years of the Depression in good shape. I earned good wages as an inspector of automobile parts and materials. Towards the end of last year, however, the bludgeonings of circumstances bruised us badly. My present boss (I am still on a payless payroll), because of business conditions, has been able to provide me with only two weeks' employment during the past twelvemonth...