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Beside being a factor in certain unmentionable questions, Julian Gordon found it a problem at the Parker House too. As the evening were on, the bottle washer broke down, (we thought it would on our report), and the guests had to return old glasses for refills. The paper machine with a lease would have avoided this, Julian says...
Irrational. In Los Angeles, puzzled police held Window Washer Andrew Pat Malone, tried to find out where he really got the 42 prewar tires, 13 wheel rims, 30 cases of canned food and 13 saxophones he claimed that his ration board gave...
Major Charles Dinwiddie, Army Provost Marshal in Houston, Tex., strode into the Texas Washer Co.'s plant not long ago and didn't like what he saw. Texas Washer makes fins for Army mortar shells, but Major Dinwiddie could find not one armed guard around its plant. Whereupon Owner Wayne A. Baird grinned at the irate Major, told him to "walk through that door." As Dinwiddie obeyed, Baird pushed a button and every one of Texas Washer's 100-odd workmen dropped his tools, trained a sawed-off shotgun at the startled officer. "Just double duty," said...
...Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award in the Houston...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...