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...high standard of diet can be preserved in wartime. Restaurants served juicy steaks and thick lamb chops; butcher shops were well stocked with pork roasts; the egg market groaned under such a flood of eggs that the War Food Administration, to support the price, bought eggs by the carload...
...leaders early last month, he urged his people to rise above the shifting tide of battle, to cling to "the faith that tells us that this war will end in a mighty German victory if only our will remains unwavering." For the man who once delivered victories by the carload, to talk of "belief" or "faith" in victory must have been a sorry comedown...
Uncritical, without even a dash of Economics I, without a Robber Baron in a carload of The-Men-Who-Made-America, The Great American Customer deals only inferentially with the subject of its title, concentrates on the all-but-forgotten manufacturers and salesmen who supplied the U.S. customer's meager demands in the early days after Independence. But it is a plum cake rich in things most U.S. citizens never knew before about their forebears...
...will glance into the near future you can see a very different picture from the one of today. The bombers will dwarf our present Flying Fortresses. They will carry half a carload of bombs across the Atlantic and fly home without stop. The bomber's skin will have numerous 'blisters,' which in reality will be multiple-gun power turrets controllable from sighting stations. Sights that compensate for almost every possible error encountered in firing on a fast-moving aerial target will control the guns-a sight as revolutionary as our present bomb sight...
...this a picture of Governmental bungling? It shows a carload and a half of potatoes dumped by the War Food Administration at the Vincennes, Ind. municipal dump. Republican Congressman Gerald Landis of Indiana charged that 37 carloads of potatoes, worth $60.000, had rotted in Vincennes' storage plants. He demanded an investigation. WFA, anxious to make a molehill out of the potato mountain, said that most of the 37 carloads in Vincennes would yet be saved, that only the carload and a half are a complete loss. Elsewhere in the nation, only 50 of 6,422 carloads of Government potatoes...