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...only a revolution in speed and comfort in airline travel, but also a revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
Wallstrait Oldparr. The authors base their interpretations of this nightmare on their certainty that "There are no non sense syllables in Joyce . . . any intelligent reader can shave off some rewarding layers of meaning." They also believe that "Joyce provides an answer to every riddle he expounds," and that "in every passage there is a key word which sounds the essential theme." Example (from page 1 of Finnegans Wake}: "The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohooordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand...
...various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill's fingers, which caused him to remark, "Pribichevich, the Russian spit is stronger than yours...
...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
Cropped. In Murphysboro, Ill., an optimistic barber overheard Farmers Bill and Arthur Guetterslau complaining about their sour luck, promptly traded a haircut and a shave for 150 acres of flooded wheat...