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...likes to eat (string beans, chocolate ice cream) and drink (milk). About her other likes and dislikes she is less reticent. Yellow is her favorite color (see cover). Telephone books are her pet aversion. It is hard for her to find numbers because she does not know her alphabet very well. She was taught to sing...
Author Crosby's social thesis is a protest against the urbanizing of Morrisville. Milkman Lovering is his spokesman about the beat of the hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
...billboards all posters are printed in the Hebrew alphabet...
Lately, brusque, kinetic Mustafha Kemal, President of the Republic of Turkey, glanced, too, at the tablets. Elsewhere in Turkey, by Presidential decree (TIME, Sept. 17), the Arabic script had been supplanted suddenly by the Latin alphabet, and President Kemal ordered that the Holy Inscriptions, like any others, must be spelled out in Latin characters...
Last week the wool ranchers and wool manufacturers bombarded the Ways & Means Committee about Schedule 11, the wool tariff. Count through the alphabet to the eleventh letter and it is K? the famous Schedule K of 1909, the issue on which the Democrats carried the House election...