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...Pint Pitcher. Feeding on the hypocrisy are the bootleggers, who buy federal retail liquor tax stamps (420 of them this year) to keep in federal good graces, but who openly defy the state. The bootleggers buy whisky wholesale in such outlets as Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference...
...average bootlegger makes three trips a week to his out-of-state wholesaler, brings back the lugs to an isolated barn or a garage. From this cache lugs are divided among "pint pitchers," young drivers who distribute the liquor to service stations or barbershops that function as "package stores." More and more, pint pitchers are delivering directly to the consumer; advertising flyers stuck on automobiles or mailed to homes provide the telephone numbers to call, promise 15-minute delivery...
Actual donations will be made during the week of Dec. 3, when the Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Memorial Hall. Any student who wishes to pledge a pint of blood but has not yet done so is urged to sign up at Phillips Brooks House as soon as possible...
...these wide open spaces, Americans are a new species. Mollie Regan, red-haired and illegitimate daughter of one Regan, meets Stanton Laird, oil geologist from Oregon. His rival is David Cope, a "pommy" (Australian slang for English immigrant) who runs a neighboring station, a pint-size affair of about 300,000 acres. Mollie goes off to Oregon with the ice-cream addict, Stanton, but when she discovers that the U.S. frontier has been all softened up by milk shakes and civilization, she returns to the rum and mutton of the Australian never-never to cope with Cope...
...Pint-Size Engine. American Motors has developed a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine weighing only 200 Ibs. v. Nash Rambler's 450-lb engine. Made largely of aluminum, the 62-h.p. motor occupies half the space of a conventional water-cooled auto engine. It will also be available next year in bigger units (6 and 8 cylinders) for use in autos, air-transported military vehicles, and stationary equipment, e.g., pumps, generators...