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Operations in Sperry Gyro's 11-story Brooklyn plant are romantically secretive. Sperry employes (all U. S. citizens) wear colored badges (a different color for each division), come and go under the vigilant eyes of watchmen. Except for a few top officials, no Sperry employe knows much about what is going on outside his own division...
Dunkers in all-night coffee pots and diners, cabbies dozing on the late-trick hack lines, night watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with...
...Corp. alone owes $3,000,000), about one-fourth of the school districts could not pay their teachers. Some 6,000 teachers all told had received no pay for one to ten months. Hundreds were on relief. To support their families, others worked after school hours as undertakers, night watchmen, store clerks, life-insurance salesmen, coal bootleggers...
...bulging, well-documented Franco index (said to contain some 2,000,000 names) was being annotated from the personal memories of the Fifth Column. Moreover, a large portion of the Loyalist population was being forced, under the threat of punishment, to become informers. The Serenas, picturesque night watchmen who let people into their homes late at night for a small tip, were ordered for questioning. The two oldest inhabitants of any building in which ''murder, robberies, looting, arrests or any other offenses were committed" were ordered to appear before military courts. All those possessing documents, pamphlets, court records...
Students first felt the pinch when they found out that the watchmen meant business. It is believed, however, that two Seniors were tipped off by the authorities and passed along the good word about the new policy...