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Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...
Cousins figured that the U.S.-with one-seventeenth of the world's population -uses up 65% of the 9.7 million ton world newsprint supply. He thinks U.S. publishers can all shave their supply slightly, contribute the paper to a pool for foreign publishers. Said Cousins: "At a rough estimate, 250,000 tons made available to the press of the world would meet the present total emergency outside America. This would be 4% of American consumption [and for each U.S. newspaper] might average out to less than a page...
...Cadillac, put it through stiff road tests. Combined with a powerful new (and still secret) automatic transmission, the engine has already proved that it can cut gas consumption from 29% to 40%, depending on speed. G.M.'s present research chief, Charles L. McCuen, believes it can shave $2.5 billion a year from U.S. motorists' fuel bills. It can be put into mass production as soon as war restrictions ease enough to permit the huge retooling required...
...burglar stopped long enough to shave and take a bath, but took nothing else from the room...
...went traveling, and loved the friendly gas station men, and the clean, convenient motels (they were a new idea in 1938), and the handy lunch counters. I even enjoyed listening to the radio commercials and watching the Burma-Shave advertisements go by--at first...