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...Orleans last week an airplane arrived from North Dakota-and a famed restaurant had 760 Ibs. of butter at 90? a Ib. In Wisconsin it was cheese, butter, and hijacked beer which filtered through illegal channels. In New York City, men's clothing dealers bought low-priced suits from an ethical low-priced retailer, substituted their own labels for his and sold the suits for twice what they had cost. In Colorado it was grain-running to sheep and cattle feeders. In Iowa it was almost anything the farmer's heart desired for a couple of carloads...
...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
After a dry-as-dust opening barrage by Majority Leader Alban Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...
...quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where the band plays Friday nights. Said he last week: "The electric drum doesn't drink or smoke, doesn't try to date my waitresses, and doesn...
...long time the thudding of their 120 h.p. engines came back across the ice. Five hours later a radio message from Commander Baird reported that the "snows" were 36 miles out. In the 80 or more days they would be gone, they would be supplied by four Dakota Transports (C-47s) and seven sturdy, single-engined Noorduyn Norsemen...