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...cannot drink tea out of a teacup without the aid of the Five Towns [federated into Stoke-on-Trent],... For this, [its] architecture is an architecture of ovens and chimneys; for this, its atmosphere is as black as its mud; for this, it burns and smokes all night, so that [z?] has been compared to hell; . . . for this . . . it comprehends the mysterious habits of fire and pure, sterile earth; for this it lives crammed together in slippery streets where the housewife must change white window curtains at least once a fortnight . . . / For this it exists-that you may drink...
Forthright, 49-year-old Ellis Smith is a deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...
...cadets so dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal: 7½%). ¶Eating foods with lots of carbohydrates improves resistance to "blackouts" caused by lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Reason: it reduces the body's oxygen requirements. Moral: high flyers should stoke up on bread and potatoes rather than ham & eggs...
With the beginning of World War II, these ravages became wholesale. In Naples, the Royal Society Library was burned in reprisal for the shooting of a Nazi in a nearby street. In Athens, the books of three American colleges reportedly were used to stoke furnaces. Not all the destruction was deliberately aimed at books, but the results were the same. In England, the contents of at least 50 libraries, plus some 6,000,000 books in stalls and publishing houses, have been bombed into dust...
...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...