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...reserve supply is nowhere near as big as it sounds: almost 100,000,000 gal. will disappear in "shrinkage" and evaporation before it gets bottled, another 100,000,000 gal. is being held as a last-ditch reserve for blending with new stocks, come peace. And around one-third of the remaining 200,000,000 gal. is not yet two years old. Whiskey consumption is at the rate of 87,000,000 gal. a year...
...traditional title that goes with the job of U.S. Comptroller General is "Watchdog of the Treasury." The Comptroller, grizzled, paunchy Lindsay Carter Warren of North Carolina, is proud of the title. He is also justly proud of his reputation in the House of Representatives as a dead-earnest, last-ditch supporter of the Congress' Constitutional right to examine the way the Administration spends every last penny of the people's money...
...Army rode his familiar jeep up to the front again. The Italian autumn rains had eased a bit. The spongy volcanic soil of the Volturno meadows firmed rapidly; it was possible now to drive off the roads. From a forward post the General peered across a calm, river-and ditch-ribbed valley to the German positions...
...from waste sulfite liquor from the Tribune's paper mills). Driven by a Tribune reporter, the tires survived go-mile-an-hour driving in 150-degree heat in California's Death Valley, finally blew out the first shoe after 7,800 miles when the car hit a ditch across a mountain road...
...show is dished out by Master of Ceremonies Mickey Rooney. Kay Kyser's noisy faculty teaches I Dug a Ditch, assisted by comely Georgia Carroll. Bob Crosby's band backs Baby Basilisk Virginia O'Brien in In a Little Spanish Town. Benny Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky...