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...rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield under sandhog conditions. Among other discomfitures...
...Then Brigadier General Hershey's crew took over, finished the job. It took them until 5:48 a.m. next day. Out over the U. S., by radio and news ticker, the numbers flowed, establishing the "national master list," which along with personal and local circumstances would determine the order in which 17,000,000 men, aged 21 to 35, might be called for a year of Army training. Draft folklore gained some items...
...when Willkie reached Los Angeles, the city went crazy. Torn paper & ticker tape showered down, a steady, deep-toned roar followed his car for many miles, and at the City Hall the swirling crowd jammed around him so frenziedly that he never got within 50 feet of Acting Mayor Robert Burns and the dignitaries...
...with the things it has. . . . You don't look 'dumb' to me." In a confused moment he made his first blunder, let slip: "To hell with Chicago." The cavalcade rushed off to the financial district, LaSalle Street. There Chicago's cool reception turned tumultuous. A ticker-tape blizzard showered down...
Willard Garfield Weston, wealthy Canadian baker now an English M. P., got so excited reading the news ticker at the House of Commons that he promised ?100,000 ($400,000) to Lord Beaverbrook's Ministry for Aircraft Production, to replace that day's plane losses. Prime Minister Churchill conveyed the War Cabinet's special compliments...