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...simplest German incendiaries weigh about two pounds and are filled with thermite. There are four methods of putting them out. The first method is to smother them with the tin tops of garbage cans. But there are seldom enough covers for all the bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated...
...Thayerville Steel Mills, a corporation located in the "state of Langdell," was charged by the N. L. R. B. with violating the Wagner Act, by discouraging membership in the "Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North America...
...risk of having my Lone Ranger badge taken away for being a member of the Fifth Column, I'd like to talk about the flood of patriotic songs that the factories in Tin Pan Alley have been turning out recently...
...stopped smoking years ago-it wasn't worth the risk. When he stopped, he stopped. For a time he kept an open tin of cigarets on his desk, never touched them...
...grieve long for the lost 50; they went discreetly, quietly after more. Last week-as Washington's bars began to buzz with the rumor that Britain might get more old destroyers -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that contracts had been let for 40 more "tin cans," to cost an average of $6,300,000 each. They will be paid for out of authorizations already made for the two-ocean programs. After previous contracts were awarded, there was still some tonnage left over. Navy men passed the word that the new building would slow up the two-ocean...