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...Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the author of the remarkable psychological study A Pin to See the Peepshow. Rather touchingly old-fashioned in its style, it is marred by such phrases as "the simple faith of sailormen" and "these unalterable British!" It suffers, inevitably, from being told at secondhand. But it is an honorable and exciting account of an exceedingly honorable, exciting-and true-event...
...Question (asked at Manhattan's OPA office): "May I drive my car to shop around secondhand dealers so I may sell it?" Answer: "No." Question: "May an Italian in a Jewish neighborhood drive to an Italian store a mile away once a week to buy Italian food...
...came a lucky accident: the Browns heard that a small Houston shipyard was going to lose its subchaser contract because of money troubles. They asked for the job and got it. Within six months the Browns bought and cleared a 156-acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized fleet of destroyer escorts-many-gunned convoy and anti-submarine craft which cost some $5,000,000. For this...
Many practical and theoretical difficulties remain before the process is perfected. Charles Birch-Field does not expect to solve the problems in his studio with his ancient, secondhand projector and crude equipment. But someone, somewhere, probably will...
Furniture of Dartmouth students who are drafted will be bought by the College, it was announced in Hanover, Monday. This action was made necessary by the lack of secondhand furniture stores near the College...