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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smoke. In Virginia's famed Old Belt markets, tobacco companies are scrambling to buy all the leaf they can get. 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...
Pointing out that 80 per cent of the plant capacity of the industry is government owned and that stockholder's capital is only equal to eight per cent of the volume of sales, the report continued to show " the small margin by which current assets exceed current liabilities...
Topping their U. S. Treasury quota of 12,000 by nearly 50 per cent, the civilian Houses completed the University's war bond campaign last night with a total of $2951 sold in bonds and stamps, according to Bertram A. Knight '46 of Adams House, acting as civilian Houses Director in the Third War Loan Drive...
...test consists of squat jumps, pushups, situps, pullups, a 100 yard "pick-a-back" run, "burpees," and a 300 yard spring. One hundred per cent will be given for 73 or more squat jumps, 85 situps, 18 pullups, 43 pushups, 13.75 "burpees," an 18 second speed in the hundred "pick-a-back," and 35 seconds or less in the 300 yard...
There are authentic scenes as well: Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...