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...Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army camp. A foresighted quartermaster had sent to London for lobster to perk up the army menu. Cabled the Toronto Daily Star's Fred Griffin: ". . . the most beautiful meal I have eaten since leaving Canada nearly two years ago." The Prime Minister reviewed Canadian troops, made no speeches. In 1941, when the Canadians overseas were edgy and impatient under their long inaction, he addressed them and was roundly booed. This time the troops knew that action could not be long delayed. Cabled...
...drawn from the cribs by October, when the 1944 corn crop is harvested. It is estimated that by July, wheat stocks in the cavernous elevators will be down to a little more than a month's supply. In one year the record number of U.S. livestock will have eaten all the grain that the land produced, plus the huge surpluses from other years...
...Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments." After Waterloo, Hazlitt sank into unkempt despair. While Poet Laureate Southey and Poet Laureate-to-be Wordsworth celebrated Britain's victory with "boiled plum puddings" eaten al fresco by the light of blazing tar barrels, Hazlitt "walked about, unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober by day, and always intoxicated by night...
...shirts from an Army camp. Said the boy: "I wanted to have some souvenirs to give to my grand children." Tyger, Tyger. In Los Angeles, Leo Winter was fined $500 for misapplication of ration points in spite of his explanation that he and his wife and his cat had eaten 495 Ib. of meat between November 5 and December...
...Indian biologists, H. C. Mittra and K. Mitra, studied the nutritional value of red ants, a delicacy commanding high prices in Indian village markets. The ants, called Hau, are eaten raw. In tests on rats, Mittra & Mitra found that the ants rated high in digestibility. Chemically analyzed, they were rich in carbohydrates and protein. Encouraged by these findings, the Journal suggested studies of other bugs such as head lice and bedbugs, highly fancied by Melanesians...