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...agencies, Mansure has cracked down on wasteful habits all over Washington. By installing a motor pool, he cut the number of cars used by his own agency from 36 to eight. He also persuaded Small Business Administrator William Mitchell, who rates a $1,400 sedan, to use a $365 secondhand Mercury instead...
...from one old friend, borrowed $100 from another and bought a secondhand drilling rig. On his first try, at a depth of 73 feet, the rig broke down. Steen, who had no money to buy a Geiger counter, borrowed one from a friend to test a sample of the greyish black rock brought up by the drill. The needle nearly jumped from the dial of the instrument. "We've found it!" cried Charlie. "We've found a million dollars...
Lucky Hobby. Ott started time-lapse photography as a hobby at 18. With a secondhand 16-mm. movie camera, he photographed budding apple blossoms every hour for four days. The film made each blossom open like an explosion. To take shots oftener, Ott rigged up an electric clock which every five minutes started a motor that pulled down the window shade, switched on floodlights, and tripped his shutter. His movie showed the blossom slowly opening, flowering, then wilting-all in two minutes. He kept up the work as a hobby, while clerking in Chicago's First National Bank (once...
Queen Mary, 85, was reported to be recovering after a 19-day battle with a gastric upset. The Duke of Windsor, on his way to visit her, said that because of one of his mother's well-known idiosyncrasies he had been "very worried" and unsatisfied with the secondhand reports of her condition. He had not been able to speak with her by phone because "my mother has never spoken on the telephone in her life. It is one of those strange things. She is sort of scared of it. I don't know...
...Marine Corporal Frank Farkas painted the word lemon on the side of his secondhand sedan after it suffered repeated breakdowns, was promptly arrested by Washington, D.C. police and found guilty of an American form of lese majesty under a local regulation which forbids displays which "ridicule" the make of an automobile...