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Unfortunately the shame-criers won the fight just when the wolf-criers finally be gan to be right. Most notable example of cutting below bedrock: farm equipment, where a WPB order cutting production to 20% of 1940 coincided with a draft and wage policy that drained workers off the farm and a farm-production policy that called for astronomical quantities of food. This manifest absurdity received only piecemeal attention until the U.S. food situation had assumed near-crisis proportions...
...bush the only recreation is hunting and fishing-on special rights given them by the Yukon territorial government. Doughboys hunt to vary meals of corned beef, potatoes, lemonade, carrots, preserves and dried eggs, by adding moose and bear steaks, lake trout, spruce partridge, ptarm'gan, grouse, venison. At Swan Lake, for lack of regular tackle a Signal Corps man made a line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...
FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE-Paul Hor-gan-Harper...
...temporary chairman called for or der, said Senator Ellender had a message from the President. Boo! "I will now ask the Senator to take the floor." Boo! The Senator reached the microphone, white and shaken. "Fellow Democrats," he be gan,"I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning. ..." Nothing was plain after that; through the surging roar of catcalls and the stamping of feet, whistles and bleacher wit, disjointed phrases echoed out of the loudspeakers: I thought democracy had returned to Louisiana...