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There was no shortage of reasons. The most obvious was that the war had cut production. The loss of the Philippines had cut out 900,000 tons a year. Cuba, trying to boost production, had cut its sugar cane too close to the ground in 1944. Not only does it take 18 months for the growth to come back to normal, but Cuba this year suffered its worst drought in 86 years, resulting in a sugar loss of 900,000 tons. Hawaiian and Puerto Rican production was way down...
...because he was so young and gullible-looking, he thought, that sneaky little men in the Paris streets kept trying to sell him dirty postcards. Anyhow, "after studying the matter, I bought a pair of spats and a cane, and started growing a small mustache," wrote Paul Scott Mowrer, 35 years later. With this protective disguise, he settled down to cover France for the Chicago Daily News. His specific instructions were: look for lively feature stories, and don't write about European politics unless you absolutely have...
...Japanese had been piped aboard four minutes before MacArthur made his appearance. The first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...
...Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu, tired and expressionless, limping on his cane as he went; Umezu, stony-faced and silent, lifting a white-gloved hand to acknowledge the salute of the guard at the gangway...
Faced with such an odds-on favorite (1-to-4), cagey Bill Cane, the straw-hat host at Goshen's Good Time Park, persuaded the State Harness Racing Commission to let him bar Titan from the betting. Denied the right to gamble on a sure thing, betters merely nibbled at the rest of the field, sending $15,000 less through the mutuel machines than last year. Then, more or less reconciled to what was almost objective sport, they settled down to watch Titan's free-wheeling spin, in a setting out of Currier & Ives. Titan, whose owners picked...