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...agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead of becoming the most unpopular man in Britain, emerged as a nationally respected and almost popular figure...
Last spring, the Flying Club sponsored and competed in the Air Meet at Coon messet, on Cape Cod. The University pilots took first place in spot landings, and second and third in bomb-dropping...
...lands surrounding the North Atlantic. In Russia the southern limit of permafrost (permanently frozen ground) is receding northward up to 100 yards a year. Many Norwegian slopes are raising barley where only grass grew before. Even the fish of the North Atlantic are taking advantage of the change. The cod, which are very sensitive to temperature changes, have migrated northward some 500 miles since...
...have clomped, crabbed and fanned quite a few oars against thole pins, but I have yet to recall one as squeaking. Against an oarlock, maybe yes, but a drop of [cod] liver squeezings . . . will eliminate any such annoyance...
Just two and a half hours from South Station stretches Cape Cod, a hundred and twenty miles of vacationland dotted with over ten summer stock companies. From the groups at Falmouth and Dennis with a star on the boards every week, to the groups of "hopefuls" at Provincetown and Chatham, one finds a wide assortment of summer theatre entertainment...