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...increase somewhat the tiny food rations on which the Fatherland subsists (TIME, Oct. 9). Germans were promised that during December, "in honor of the holiday season," they will each be able to buy an extra pound of meat, three-quarters of a pound of rice, one-half pound of butter, six eggs and three ounces of chocolate...
...strangest newspapers in the world is edited in Lhasa, Tibet, by one Tharchin Baboo. The Tibetan News has a small circulation among an intellectual clientele of Tibetan lamas, some of whom pay for their subscriptions in yak butter. The paper contains cartoons, international news, and puzzles for the hours when the lamas' prayer wheels are idle. Recently readers of the News have been getting their yak butter's worth, for near-by-in China's Szechwan Province just to the east and Sinkiang Province just to the north-mysterious, important news was being made...
...also a measure of falseness. For to exorcise evil and unhappiness, Saroyan has to make the world cockeyed and alcoholic, and all its outcasts childlike and starry-eyed. His mushy idealism turns his play, with its god from the slot machine, into a fairy tale. Saroyan takes the bread & butter of existence and smears it with...
...stores at 2? to 4? less than at present. Milk at 9? or 10? a quart would be possible, and at this price consumption would increase, much to farmers' profit, for the dairies pay most for milk that is sold in fluid form (i.e., not manufactured into butter, cheese, etc.). FORTUNE explains the conspiracy of circumstances which has prevented this simple solution, has continued to keep the price of fluid milk at uneconomic levels...
...National Dairy Products and Borden, whose subsidiaries distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...