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Government liquor-store operators sold a 26-oz. crock of gin, rum or wine every 27 seconds from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Beer supplies were soon exhausted: sales were estimated at 10,000 glasses in a day. Because many a farmer had left his meat ration coupons home, grocers had a field day. Said one: "I sold more bananas and sardines than I'll ever sell again one day if I stay in business 100 years...
...Charles Winninger), his wife (Fay Bainter), their son Wayne (Dick Haymes) and their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside in her crock of heavily spiked mincemeat. Wayne meets and falls for a redhead (Vivian Blaine) who sings with Tommy Thomas' band, and Margy picks up with a Des Moines reporter (Dana Andrews...
...Crock of Mold...
...early days when doctors were not an everyday luxury. I remember, when I was a very little girl and grandmother stayed at our house, how she would sort of guiltily and secretly sneak away a piece of bread when no one was looking, add it to her crock of penicillin (it was not known by that name then). She kept up her laboratory in that crock, so there was a remedy for every emergency. Grandmas were wonderful doctors in those days...
...perfectly safe, provided it is kept in the icebox. But acid foods should not be prepared in galvanized iron utensils. Although arsenic sprays are not strong enough to cause immediate poisoning, Dr. Chandler suggests soaking all fruits and vegetables which are eaten without peeling in a crock of 1% hydrochloric acid for a few minutes. This dunking should be followed by a thorough washing...