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That first sleeping car consumed 15 years of George Pullman's life and $20,000 of the money he had made in Chicago construction. He called it "Pioneer," lined it with black walnut inside, painted it a heavy mahogany with gold trimmings outside. It contained a washroom at each end, two compartments, and four sections of seats to be made up into berths...
...young Brooklyn boys in zoot suits, Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli, never did like their old math teacher anyhow. So one day two months ago they went back to their high school and smoked in a washroom, just to be annoying. When the teacher reprimanded them and sent them packing, they got sore. Presently they returned to the school with a revolver and shot the math teacher in the back. He died in his blood on the floor of the school corridor. On such evidence the two boys, no longer in zoot suits, were last week sent to Sing Sing...
Separate fires broke out in Dorothy Thompson's home in Manhattan, and in Governor-Elect Thomas E. Dewey's home in Pawling, N.Y. The columnist's fire started in a secret washroom (its door a swinging bookcase), burned up 600 books, smoked her out for the night. The Governor-elect's fire spread from a defective flue in the fireplace; firemen chopped a hole in the side of the house...
...view of the manpower shortage, everybody wanted the women to work except Local 6. Regional Director James V. Bryant of the War Manpower Commission threatened to refer the quarrel right to Washington. Even the Treasury Department lent the women a helping hand: it offered shipyards 300 complete sets of washroom plumbing (scrapped from a hotel turned into a Treasury office building) for bigger and better Rainbow Rooms...
...Division not only scurries after contractors for steel, concrete, excavation and labor, but checks the details of estimates and assures smooth-running coordination. Meanwhile the engineers and architects of the Technical Division have worked out their structural blueprints and are ready with specifications for everything from steel trusses to washroom tile...