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Amid the sound & fury, OPA approved a 1? hike in the price of a loaf of bread, already cut 10% in weight to save grain. The increase, on the heels of OPA boosts in the price of butter and milk, looked like a lively hint of things to come...
They watched Chester Bowies' price line buckle again as Bowles reluctantly granted price increases in milk, butter and cheese which he estimated would cost the public an annual $250 million. They listened as U.A.W.'s Chrysler workers, who had won an 18½? wage boost in January, served notice of another wage demand. The Washington economists, who had hoped they could prevent a boom & bust, saw the spiral still spiraling upwards...
Capitol Offense. In Washington, Senator Charles W. Tobey thundered about the butter shortage, left the Senate, returned to his office, found two pounds missing from his secret cache in a water cooler...
...crops in the dark of the moon, and above-the-ground crops when the moon was full. This practice, probably as old as agriculture, was supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
...Buchmanites were excited. "Dr. Buchman's return is naturally something we are worked up about,"explained one, frantically dusting the Oxford Group's headquarters in Berkeley Square. The old "Soul Surgeon"-who looks like Gandhi fully clothed and well fed on the very best melted butter-was back after seven years...