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...much else that happens to Ernie Mott, the bewildered, pimply-faced scrap of slum life whose emotions, frustrations and stumblings are narrated in a stream of his day dreams, illusions and misconceptions, expressed in a rapid-fire, highly cockney argot many U.S. readers may find hard to understand...
...killed). The 80th victim of the wreck of the P.R.R.'s swift Congressional (TIME, Sept. 13) died in a Philadelphia hospital. Then, same day, an eight-alarm, $250,000 blaze swept through Philadelphia's old Broad Street station. Six empty passenger cars were burned to charcoal and scrap iron...
...metal trays formerly used in the dining halls will be sold as scrap. Students will proceed down the serving line with hands outstretched...
...When in 1941 President Roosevelt "with evident satisfaction" called the U.S. policy of shipping scrap iron and oil to Japan a "success...
...have had business abroad (Herbert Lehman's OFRR, Nelson Rockefeller's OCIAA, Elmer Davis' OWI) have slowly, painfully learned that all foreign business must funnel through the State Department. The hard-to-handle exception was Henry Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare. When BEW was scrapped by Executive Order, Secretary Hull promptly stepped up and claimed the scrap pile...