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...printings are now published about every eight months, with some 3,000 pages altered in each new printing. Sales have been boosted since 1939 by the publicity obtained on the Information Please radio program (sets are given to winners). Highest sales were in 1942: 21,000 sets. The cheapest set sells for $150, and more than 40% of all sales are to families earning less than $2,500 yearly...
...Niacin (formerly nicotinic acid) is the chief constituent of the B-complex and prevents pellagra. It is now the cheapest of the synthetics-$5 a pound...
...Angeles matron bought 16 dresses, four suits, three coats, the cheapest $69.95. One hefty customer grabbed a size-12 dress off a rack, told the salesgirl: "Yes, I'm too big for it, but I can always find someone to buy it from me if I can't have it altered...
...into the sea by customs inspectors. Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart reported, after a tour of the island, that storehouses were empty of rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria was gone; druggists worried over the dwindling stock of substitutes. The WPA estimated that of 320,000 students in the public schools...
...course, prompted by the resurgence of the powerful dry lobby, and especially its efforts to force prohibition upon the areas surrounding Army posts. I wonder if the much-spoken-for "Mothers of America" really want their 18-and 19-year-old sons to come home used to drinking the cheapest liquor a pint at a time. ... I don't think it's sacrilege to include moderation in drinking as part of the American way. ... At the very least, it's a damn dirty trick to play on us while we're away...