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...Continental Motors does not give the men regular time off to smoke. The men crowd into lavatories, turn them into smoking rooms. "It's the damndest thing you ever saw," said one workman. "Often a man will spend 45 minutes in the toilet. Foremen just stay away, they don't dare do anything...
...fall: "They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There was no crying and chins were up. Four-hundred of us were put into a hotel where 93 of us shared one dirty toilet and one bath. We were watched by Indian and Chinese police who had gone Jap. They slapped whites for as little as speaking to friends. The servants enjoyed torturing their masters. The Japs made propaganda films of our marching through the streets with burdens...
...Along with tanks and planes, the U.S. has sent Russia 10,000 Ford trucks, 500,000 rolls of adhesive tape, 100 medical books, tin, wheat, flour, butter, steel, aviation gasoline, machine tools and machinery to drill oil wells, laundry and toilet soap, sulfa drugs...
...having lunch in the officers' mess, the Sergeant who had been running the radio shouted to the crew to stay low, keep calm and keep firing. . . . His sensations, by his own account later, took in everything from hot flashes to the calm a man feels only on the toilet seat. First he was scared. Then, when he had fired his gun for the first time, he felt very good, very sure of himself...
Laval devotes much time to his toilet, but he is one of the untidiest political figures on earth. The cigaret drooping from his lip is always stained with spittle. His teeth grew that way. His hair insists on its greasy disarray. His expensive grey suits wrinkle fast over his fleshiness. He often changes his habitual white ties several times a day, but they invariably get smudged. He is a heavy, un-French eater and uses his fingers as a fork, his fork as a toothpick...