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...little destroyer lurched as her helm was put over and the engine-room annunciator called for full speed ahead. Her alarm gongs clanged "General Quarters." Before the clangor had subsided, the men off watch-tin-helmeted officers, sailors, messboys-had reached their stations...
...York City the Automats were "very amusing," the subways "dirty" and "disappointing." Central Park was "a plant growing on a shiny tin table...
...European Russia would also ease Hitler's shortage of manganese, aluminum, lead and zinc-but not markedly. He would get little badly needed copper, nickel, tin or gold out of the Russian earth, but probably one of his greatest quick gains would be millions of tons of scrap metals, of many sorts, from wrecked Russian machinery and weapons...
...damage: one of his duralumin legs crumpled. While his pretty wife and some friends drank a champagne toast to him "wherever he was," the Luftwaffe sent a message to the R.A.F. through the Red Cross offering safe passage to any British pilot who would fly over with a new tin...
...Leon Henderson, all he could do was go back to his office, announce more price ceilings, hope that by some miracle they would be obeyed. Last week he put ceilings on raw sugar, burlap, copper, pig tin, pine lumber. But bootlegging has put holes in Leon's previous ceilings and doubtless will continue to riddle his new ones...