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...this summer's drive two wagon loads of scrap were taken in by the salvagers. Much of this was of little use, however, including such items as a pair of shoulder guards from Eliot House and a collection of beer bottle tops. "The bottles themselves would have been a lot more useful," said Cobb, "even if they were empty...
...over the U.S. a little-known but strategic war industry is booming. It is the business of factory feeding. Two years ago this business contented itself with bourgeois monikers like "lunch wagon" or "canteen." Now the factory feeders haughtily call themselves "subsistence contractors," "industrial caterers," "rolling restaurants" and (at Cessna Aircraft) "Witamin Wagons...
...last week to the San Fernando Valley ranch of the late Tom Mix, walked into a shed where the most famous horse since Pegasus stood in the mildness of his last few moments alive. The horse was Tony, who was a scrawny yearling following a vegetable wagon around a small town in Arizona when Tom Mix gave $12.50 for him. In the years that followed, Tony became the valiant central symbol of a cinematic age of innocence, the hero of millions of small boys and some of the best juveniles ever made...
...tenth Boy Scout law reads: "A Scout is brave. He has the courage to face danger. . . ." Last week good Scout Charles Follette Jr., 14, had the courage. At a football game in Ellwood City, Pa., the gas tank of a popcorn wagon exploded, set the wagon on fire. Keeping a crowd away from the flames, Scout Follette was fatally burned...
Coming at a time of general dissatisfaction with the progress of the war, the Post is cleverly attempting to create a new band wagon on which our escapist groups can jump. These foreboding prophets say that "there is one rock or truth to which the common man may cling--economic freedom." But the common man has already given evidence that he is willing for the government to assume as much power as it needs to win the war. He has also shown that he expects the government after the war to prevent a return of the runaway competition which...