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...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...
Swift Completion. In Washington, the Interior Department mailed a penny postcard to a man in nonexistent "Harrisia," N.J., got it back 56 years later. In Yonkers, N.Y., repairmen found a bundle of postmarked, undelivered letters in the railroad station, turned them over to the postoffice for delivery-17 years after they were mailed...
Back home in Britain last week, the people were only slowly recovering from The Crisis. Some of the worst floods in history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because...
...repairmen, on the scene by afternoon, volunteered the information that at 9 o'clock he had discovered over an inch of water on the floor coming from a faucet in the secretary's private shower room. He said it had clearly been running all night. "Same educated person went in to turn on the water after the city water main broke," he commented...
Manpower. The industry had 600,000 workers during the early part of 1944. Now its payrolls were down to 400,000 and the mills were in dire need of furnace repairmen and common laborers. There was bad news ahead in the skilled-trades brackets too: 60,000 of the industry's best technical workers between the ages of 26 and 29 were up for the draft this year...