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...physical relief. In a two-day canvass policemen listed 13,222 families in need of immediate aid. Estimates of the city's unemployed ran as high as 800,000. Into eight Salvation Army soup kitchens long lines of men and a few women shuffled for free clam chowder, crackers, coffee. City officials prepared to feed 15,000 mouths per day, shelter 10,000 heads, free throughout the winter...
...Newark, N. J., Mrs. Stacy H. Miller found a $500 pearl in her 35c clam cocktail...
Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...
...clam may not be 'up to snuff' in modern rhetoric; he may be slow, but he is safe and sure...
...clam can talk and work at the same time. If the clams had spent the night in 'shelling out' open-mouthed oratory, they never would have caught the mice...