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...Although hobbled by price ceilings and individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...
...Anglo-U.S. alliance in a postwar world of fewer great powers, Britons had also to face the immensely strong position of the U.S. in such an alliance. Many a Briton might recall that, back in 1929, prescient old George Bernard Shaw had written a play called The Apple Cart. In that play U.S. Ambassador Vanhattan calls on Britain's King Magnus...
...learned in Tammany politics. Sample: while temporarily serving as assistant WPA director for New York, she was hemmed in in her office one day by a "lie-down" strike of dissatisfied employes. She promptly phoned a hospital, reported that a number of people had fainted, asked for ambulances to cart them away. The strikers hastily left...
...Another stacked a dozen straw hats on his head. A woman juggled seven umbrellas. Two others squabbled over a jar of tomatoes, then dropped the jar as a small boy sprayed them, with a hairdresser's lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver tried to make off with a packet of under wear, used his fists in vain to hold it against a mob of rivals When he had lost the last garment, he burst into tears of rage, drove his horse & cart full tilt into the crowd...
Food was the immediate problem. AMGOT improved civilian mule-cart transport so that the island's farms could get their products (wheat now being harvested, tomatoes and olives, lemons, oranges and grapes) to the cities. Carefully it doled out, where necessary, Allied food stocks. Its reputation flew ahead. In many a liberated town the first question asked by black-bread eaters was: "Where is the white bread...