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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yellow Cab ordered 110,000 tin whistles (total cost: $1,500) and distributed them last week to frustrated Clevelanders. The response was reasonably shrill...
...convention had cost Bill $4,000 of his own money, which he had raised by mortgaging his alfalfa-planted ranch in Tishomingo in the Chickasaw country. Bill never thought much about money, and never got his money back. The suggestion was made in Oklahoma's first legislature that the state reimburse him, but Bill, scowling over his handlebar mustaches, didn't think that would be "circumspect": he was the legislature's speaker. "Let's leave it to some succeeding administration," said Alfalfa Bill...
Delicacy & Common Sense. This did not mean that the British, who are determined at all cost to carry on trade with Red China, wanted to pick a fight with the Communists if they could possibly avoid it. "We don't want to provoke the Communists," said a political adviser to the Hong Kong government. "We are delicately balancing many factors and trying to exercise common sense...
Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
...could be an expensive business for visiting gunners. At Stuttgart, guide service plus a fee for shooting on private land came to $15 a day. Transportation, hotel expenses, tips, food-bank freezing and dressing fees put the average day's costs at $30, or $7.50 for each duck if the hunter got the four-duck limit. Even that made no allowance for gear, ammunition or guns-which ranged from ordinary twelve-gauge single-barrels to over-and-under pieces that could cost as much as $2,500. To the habitués it was worth...