Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Market Street newsvendors laid bets on whether Murder would outsell War, soon discovered that it was no contest. The score: the News's street sales jumped 2,600 copies; the Call-Bulletin, which normally outsells the News nearly 2-to-1 on newsstands, showed no gain. Crowed the News's Managing Editor Frank Clarvoe: "It was good journalism and a great escape story...
...successful dance and to deny a central committee power here as the individuals propose, is to nullify all its other good offices. Last spring's jumbled, conflicting dance schedule is a good example of what happens under "autonomy." By eliminating competition for dances, the inter House Dance Committee will gain tremendous bargaining power with the band bookies, who formerly played one House against the other. The committee's signature on contracts, moreover, is not dictatorship, but rather gives the necessary weight to its decisions...
...Paris the Nazis had nothing to gain by any such theatrical display. On the eve of Bastille Day they simply announced that if any Frenchman who committed sabotage or attacked Germans did not surrender within ten days, they would execute his grandfather, father, brothers, brothers-in-law and cousins (over 18). They added that they would send all women of the same degrees of kinship into hard labor, all children to reform schools...
...fire anyone if he can help it. Under war pressure more workers can be released for more direct connection with the war effort. And if Washington would relieve business of such old-man-of-the-sea union practices as the famous "feather bedding" on the railroads, business would gain even greater capacity to produce...
Other fast gainers since World War I are flaxseed (up 150% to 4,440,000 acres) and peanuts (up 300% to 4,827,000 acres). With a 33% acreage gain, soybeans and flaxseed will overtake cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...