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...Take off ceilings on pre-1946 automobiles, on most department-store merchandise, meats, restaurant meals and drinks, and furniture (but to keep, for the moment, ceilings on major electrical and gas appliances, drugs and cosmetics, bakery products, milk and cereal...
Each operation lasted two hours or more, and each time Rodney stood it well. This week, he was again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...
Mechanization is the main secret of Turkey's expansion. The country imports 1,000 tractors a month. Where in 1949 Turkey imported 120,000 tons of cereal, this year it will be able to export 2,000,000 tons. Last year Turkey passed Argentina to become the fourth largest wheat-producing country outside the Iron Curtain...
Billy was helped to his feet. He stood-unsteadily but unaided. Soon, rejoicing in what she considered a miracle, Mrs. Lucas bundled Billy up and took him home. Now, gradually gaining sureness, he toddles around without leg braces. He proudly eats a dish of cereal all by himself. And instead of expressing his wants in single words, like "hungry" uttered so unclearly that only a loving parent could understand them, he says whole sentences and his enunciation is getting better...
...expedition's halting progress to the base of the mountain. It is very funny. He starts from the labor pains of the expedition, when it was busy accumulating radios which refused to work and storing breakfast food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living room of the unhappy mother of one of the expedition's members. The expedition moves through the intricacies of Peruvian Customs, through dysentary, polluted drinking water, and a platoon of shifty-eyed mule skinners, solicitously endeavoring to part Los Alpinistos from their money...