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...Goebbels recently tested the oil-of-politeness of Berlin streetcar conductors, found 22% friendly, 41% polite, 36% not polite. This added up to 99%. What the other 1% were, or what happened to them. Dr. Goebbels was too polite...
Habit. In San Francisco, a streetcar collided with a delivery truck; out of the truck bounced four trained seals, who performed in the street for half an hour...
...they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise to see that it flows into production channels. While they drive around, the WTA men will also keep an eye peeled for old bridges, abandoned streetcar lines, World War I tanks...
Soon you would go by streetcar (if the tracks hadn't been torn up for scrap), buy a Victory bicycle-or you would walk. A Senate committee heard a forecast that 1,000,000 autos would be stranded by July; 12,000,000 by the end of 1943. Already used tires with a few thousand miles still in them were selling for $50 apiece in Phoenix, Ariz...
...locomotive was reconditioned for New York Central service last week (see cut). The closing of auto assembly lines cut another big source at least until war production reaches its peak. Yet scrap still lies over the face of the U.S. like a rusty rash-jalopy graveyards, abandoned streetcar tracks, cellar junk. Why doesn't it move to the mills...