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...CALICO SHOES AND OTHER STORIES- James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Tough stuff masquerading as short stories...
Eager to adjourn, the House virtually ignored two soldierly British textile champions. "The yellow peril is now upon us in a far more insidious form than war!" cried Lieut.-Commander Frederick W. Astbury. "Unless the Government can take immediate action every calico print ing plant in Lancashire will be closed within five years...
...range from $2.50 per 100 for small common goldfish to $25 each for rare veil-tails and fringe-tails. Other varieties: comets (slightly larger and fancier than common goldfish), wakins (Japan's common goldfish, new in the U. S.), shubunkins, black moors (a black Chinese fish with big popeyes), calico fantails (mottled blue & red, with long, flowing tails). Ozark Fisheries also sell tadpoles, Japanese snails, baby turtles, fish food, water plants...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
...Nonetheless. Sir Hubert had water-filled her diving chambers, had nosed under vast cakes of ice. When she first scraped under, the hollow steel hull. Wilkins reported, "was a veritable drum or sound box with the faintest scratch of the ice sounding like the ripping of giant strips of calico. Heavy bumps set up tremors like the continuous shocks of earthquakes...