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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack of food, and with it went her life savings. Edmund Locke, whose small farm-equipment agency nearly went on the rocks during last year's I.L.W.U. West Coast strike, gave up this time. "I'm busted," said Locke sadly. Union pickets marched...
...stop the fight I will kill myself," breathed hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan to his manager. Then the middle-aged (32) middleweight champion slumped back on his squat stool in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, close to exhaustion. "My title . . . my title," he mumbled in French...
...mark, where Patton went into his relaxed "float" and won by two strides in 20.4 (equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him, then coast . . . then I had to run like hell to catch up as close as I did." Patton, the tension over, was out of sight as usual, racked and retching with violent nausea. With the help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern Cal. 55 2/5, U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State 26, Penn State...
...Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...Chester Stock, head of the Division of Experimental Chemotherapy, this record is by no means discouraging. As the records and experience accumulate, the scientists are learning how to predict whether a compound is worth testing. If a new one has a slight effect, one of its close relatives may prove better. And each slightly successful drug sets biochemists to figuring out why it worked...