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'FRISCO LESSONS HELPING LONDON
Lessons learned by San Francisco in rebuilding after the earthquake and fire of 1906 have been passed to British officials studying the problems of bomb-wracked London.
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi told the American State Department how the city was restored from ruin
NEW YORK HOTEL HELPS SAVOY STAFF
SYMPATHY WITH THE EM- PLOYEES OF THE SAVOY
WHEN AN
AIRMAN IS "CHEESED"
As the R.A.F. expands so does its vocabulary. Here are some
and chaos in response to a request more phrases for the collector of County Council.
from W. G. Jackson of the London unusual idioms.
The effort of rebuilding a city us If you are so unfortunate as to nearly fireproof as was then pos- be crossed in love or to receive sible was stressed in Mayor A severe reprimand from a senior Rossi's report. He told how ex-officer, then the proper way to de- the debris, scribe your state is to say that perts went through giving free advice to those who "you have been shot down in had started to rebuild while the flames." City sill was smoking.
fire Foremost in
protection, Mayor Rossi reported, is a $5,718,- 000 high-pressure auxiliary water supply system to protect the eight square miles comprising the most congested part of the pre- sent City,
Pacific.
When the experts who fore- cast the weather report "Future outlook unsettled" the pilots pre- for to call the outlook simply "Ropey."
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Matinees: 30c., 40c. - some inside in- formation then you call it the "Real Gen." If the news is still more exclusive then it is the "Pukka Gen.”
This system includes two reser- voirs of 1,250,000 gallons total capacity on eminences of the Cily, which ordinarily are filled from a still higher reservoir but The origin of the word "Gen" which, in emergency. can be is doubtful. It may be short for
it may come from HOTEL, LONDON, WHO HAVE supplied with salt water from the "genius,"
"genuine" or alternatively, from Breakage of mains by the "general information." earthquake was one calise of the rapid spread of the fire that followed. The present system is designed, Mayor Rossi re- ported, so there will be а minimum chance of breakage in the mains.
SUFFERED THROUGH ENEMY ACTION HAS RESULTED IN THE STAFF OF THE HOTEL PIERRE, NEW YORK, SUB- SCRIBING £250.
The cheque will be handed over to Sir George Reeves-Smith, man- aging director of the Savoy by Mr. Bertram N. Cruger, London representative of the British War street intersections
People who obstruct you arel
this called "a bind" and from comes the verb "to bind."
There are three degrees of de- jection. The first is the stage of Under each of 135 downtown being "browned off," the second is a 75,000- of being "brassed off," and the Relief Society of America. It was gallon cistern filled with water, third, which means that there is stated at the Savoy that 40 per Even though the mains might no hope for you, of being "com- cent. of their employees have break or the system otherwise pletely cheesed." suffered loss through bomb dam-, fail, the congested district still age.
would have water to fight flames.
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A beginner in any job is called "an Erk," a contraction of "air- craftman."
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Fire-watching is to be made compulsory in many parts of Kent and Sussex because there are not suf- ficient volunteers to do the job properly.
The places affected under an order to take effect immediately, are:-
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