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...barrels of free beer at the open-air bars of Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz, Miller and Gettelman breweries; lifted girls' skirts and stamped "O.K." on their thighs; goosed the citizenry either by hand or by newfangled mechanical devices; trickled water on feminine legs; stopped traffic by playing pinochle on streetcar tracks, in general caroused and roistered with all their old muscular humor...
Along 1,200 miles of Detroit streets not a streetcar or bus moved for four days. Industrial plants on the sprawling city's outskirts, chockablock with defense orders, were slowed down because some employes could not get to work. Traffic was disrupted, accidents increased. Detroiters howled with wrath, but were helpless. They thumbed rides, went to work on roller skates, on bicycles-built-for-two (see cut). A.F. of L. and C.I.O. were fighting for control of the transit workers, and while they fought Detroit got along as best it could...
...tons of steel even in normal times. And scrap is now abnormally scarce. Last week OPM steelmen particularly recommended expansion of Bessemer steel capacity, because the otherwise less economical Bessemer process requires very little scrap. Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd announced a program to collect 232,000 tons of abandoned streetcar rails. But Cleveland's Daily Metal Trades reported that steel mills are still using more scrap than they can replace, that reserves will be gone in eight weeks. Before OPM officials can attend the firing ceremonies of any new steel plant, they will probably see some others close...
...Pera is crowned by one of the swankest old hotels in the world. It is Istanbul's famed Hotel Pera Palace, chuck-full of faded tapestries and the queerest collection of Victorian rocking chairs, settees and oversize bathroom fixtures this side of Bombay. Last week a rattletybang little streetcar jammed with Turks was just careening around a curve in front of the Pera Palace when a great belch of flame and smoke pushed out the whole first floor of the hotel with a crunching, grunting roar. Against the streetcar hurtled jagged slabs of plate-glass windows, splintered tables...
...uses to set up family situations. If the patient is a little girl, the therapist provides her with a doll with which she unconsciously identifies herself. She makes the doll perform actions which she would not admit any notion of doing herself. One little girl made a toy streetcar run over the sister and mother images -to the doctor, a dead giveaway. Drs. Frank Ford Tallman and Leon Nathaniel Goldensohn find a "Betsy Wetsy" doll (one which can be given water, and wets its diapers) useful because it "allows the child to discuss all sorts of intimate situations that have...