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...Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap...
...Harry S. Lewis from Gopher Prairie-I mean Sauk Centre-this writing fellow that calls himself Sinclair Lewis...
Main Steet. But the intellectual strut and prosodic perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed...
Asked if he would commit harakiri, Yamashita grinned and shook his close-cropped head: "Hara-kiri? No, no harakiri." A U.S. soldier who had helped establish contact with Japan's ferocious "Tiger of Malaya" conferred on him a new nick name: "The Gopher of Luzon...
...crisis was well illustrated by what had happened in the tiny town of Rosemount, near Minneapolis. There, in the expanding days of 1942, the 21,000-acre Gopher Ordnance Works-a typical example of the cornfield-to-factory projects which sprang up all over the U.S.-was built to manufacture powder...