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Even in the big growing centers, potatoes were scarce. In Elizabeth City, N.C., the chamber of commerce worried lest its annual potato festival, scheduled for this week, be spudless. In Baldwin County, Ala., so many trucks were lined up to grab up the first of the spring crop that the police had to be called out. For the spaghetti and macaroni trade, the shortage was the best news in years. Buffalo's Gioia Macaroni Co. reported its sales had doubled in the past three weeks...
...worst victim of the tax grab is, ironically, the U.S. Treasury. In the first five months since the tax went into effect in November 1951, sales slipped so badly that the Treasury's total revenue from whisky taxes went off 21.4%, in spite of the higher rates...
...Yardling story was a different, and far pleassanter one. coach Bob Pickett's club took good advantage of 24 Williams penalties to grab and hold an early lead. The half-time score...
...Favorite Sons. Their strategy was simple. Unable at the moment to match him with a worthy competitor, they planned to grab the balance of power by nurturing a long list of favorite sons-among them Averell Harriman in New York, Governor Paul Dever in Massachusetts, Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in Michigan, Vice President Alben Barkley in Kentucky-who could be counted on to keep their state delegations on ice, out of Kefauver's reach...
British Overseas Airways Corp., which hopes to grab the lead in commercial aviation by flying the first jet transports on regular routes, announced that early next month it will start its 36-passenger Comet jetliner on weekly service to Johannesburg. With a cruising speed of 490 m.p..h., the Comet is scheduled to make the 6,724-mile run (five stops en route) in the flying time of 18 hours and 40 minutes, 12 hours less than current schedules...