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...worst of postwar austerity (which Northern Irish shared with the English), residents of the north found the G.N.R. a royal road to the unrationed paradise of the south, where fresh eggs and fresh meat were plentiful, and Guinness only seven-pence the pint (it cost twice as much m Belfast). The G.N.R.'s crack Belfast-Dublin Express came to be known as the Smuggler's Special because of the many travelers who rode south in their old clothes and returned in spanking new threads from Dublin's best tailors. One traveler who made the changeover...
When Mrs. McK., 25, gave a pint of blood for Britain's National Blood Transfusion Service in Sheffield last March, the doctor and nurses who checked her saw nothing unusual. But when technicians typed the blood, they did a double take, and with good reason: Mrs. McK. was the first human being in medical history with a double set of blood groups. Her red cells were 61% type 0 and 39% type...
...career as an infantry officer, Major Tim Sheldon had poured "a gallon of living into a pint pot of time." Battle-beaten at 24, he felt like an old man. What Tim Sheldon was really looking forward to, when his North Africa sector quieted down one day, was two, maybe three successive nights of sleep. But Division HQ wanted to know whether the Germans had pulled out of White Farm. There was only one way to find out. Somebody had to cross no man's land and look...
...Soviet Union wastes not one pint of its precious oil; almost all of it goes to the military: "The average Soviet citizen cannot even buy gasoline; he may buy only kerosene for his cookstove, and benzine for his cigarette lighter...
Dixie Treat. In Washington, B.C., the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras flavoring, a dash of sugar, half...