Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. The evils of alcohol were taught to school children. Health laws were used to crack down on the worst pulquerias. (Fortnight ago, 13 brigades of 20 women each made the rounds of Mexico City's worst dives, got police to jail 380 proprietors for violations, dump 140,000 gallons of illicit pulque down the sewers.) But the best chance of smashing the pulque trade seems to be to divert it to beer. Mexican beer is among the world's best. And since 1932, the beer industry has persuaded the tax-conscious Government to reduce taxes on beer...
Guns for Gags. The North Africa-Sicily circuit was toughest of all. Bombed in Algiers, Bizerte, Palermo, Hope once almost dislocated his hip, once got jammed between two targets-an airport and an ammunition dump. In a Palermo hotel, he and Block were writing a script during a dive-bombing. Commented Block: "We did a show and ran for our lives." Cracked Hope: "I've never done anything else...
...Kusaka had been denounced by two American Legionnaires (Jeweler Edward John Gare Jr. and Dentist John E. Boland), supported by employes of the state insane asylum, members of the Hampshire County Grange, the building trades unions, and the Hampshire Gazette. Threats had been made to tar & feather Kusaka, to dump him into Paradise Pond, traditional scene of campus spooning. Tomatoes were mistakenly heaved into the house of a French professor...
...this a picture of Governmental bungling? It shows a carload and a half of potatoes dumped by the War Food Administration at the Vincennes, Ind. municipal dump. Republican Congressman Gerald Landis of Indiana charged that 37 carloads of potatoes, worth $60.000, had rotted in Vincennes' storage plants. He demanded an investigation. WFA, anxious to make a molehill out of the potato mountain, said that most of the 37 carloads in Vincennes would yet be saved, that only the carload and a half are a complete loss. Elsewhere in the nation, only 50 of 6,422 carloads of Government potatoes...
...Coordination of all Washington's rambling and often conflicting agencies, with his office as the nerve center. (One of his first directives invited all his lesser czars to dump their troubles on his desk...