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...Slowest way to get drunk: highballs while standing at a bar. Quickest: straight whiskey or cocktails lying down...
...Slowest to reconvert was Chrysler Corp., which had to wait longest for cancellation of its war contracts. Chrysler hoped to get the first Plymouths off the line...
Last week many of the 35 city centers were running far behind weekly quotas: Washington had had two of its slowest days since blood collecting began; one day in Brooklyn, 417 people turned up but 463 did not even bother to telephone; Atlanta reported nine different reasons why donors failed to show up. Sample: "I'll tell you frankly. Two members of my family made donations and they had a little black mark on their arms for a week afterward...
...observatory's work is moving at the slowest rate in 20 years since 32 members of the staff are occupied full time in war service. The making of photographs of the sun, stars, nebulae, and galaxies is maintained at a rate of 80 per cent of normal, however. Several thousand photographs a year are made at the stations in Cambridge, Oak Ridge, and Bloomfontein...
...proposal to revitalize the world's slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...