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Sometimes the most thoughtful planning cannot anticipate every need, or every quirk of war and weather. Then the improvisations of Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done...
This pig-faced idol of 30,000 trusting Alaouites is sated with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned...
This kind of impudent guff pours out of station CKLW (Detroit-Windsor) for no less than three and a half hours six mornings a week (Mon. through Sat., 6-9:30 a.m., E.W.T.). Through some quirk of the radio waves, surprised U.S. Army pilots on the New Guinea run pick it up, write ardent fan letters. Hosts of Detroiters are equally enthusiastic about The Early Morning Frolic and the pair of wacky mimics who operate...
Until the tax laws are changed there is little reason for a company to buy its own bonds below par. Reason: the Government siphons off most of the paper profits in hard cash taxes. But a quirk in the law leaves profits on preferred stock retirement untouched (unless the company buys to resell at higher prices). Thus A.G.W.I. earmarked $414,000 for Federal income taxes in the first half, but will not pay one penny on its $925,000 paper profit in buying back its own preferred stock...
...McNayr, Newtonville; Robert K. Monney, Waterford, Conn; Lester J. Murphy, Dorchester; William O'Keefe, Staten Istand, New York; Thomas J. O'Toole, Newton; Frank A. Pemberton, Jr., Chestnut Hill; John G. Penson, Glen Head, L. I., N. Y.; Allen C. Percival, Fitchburg; Frederick Pope, Jr., Wilton, Conn.; Thomas C. Quirk, Watertown; James J. Redmen, Horulutu, Hawall; John C. Robbins, Jr., Cleveland Heights, Ohio; James T. Ragers, Binghampton...