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...recent months there has been a rapid rise in the number of cases where children are being left to care for themselves while the mother is out working in an avid grab for the big "defense" dollar. (There are an estimated 1,500 in Kansas City alone.) If this practice is allowed to continue, our already overburdened Government will find another real job has fallen to its lot-the operation of nursery schools; a great expense with questionable results...
...knows how Cora Hind arrived at her precise estimates, but one of her Free Press colleagues has described her method: She would "stop her car, march into a field, spin around three times with her eyes shut, and grab a stalk of wheat...
Again the same tough routine. Hurl a few score bombs, dive into a whirling Richthofen Circus with 30 Jap Zeros. Home again, grab yourself a plateful of chow. Flop in your bed at ten. And here is the boy again calling you at a quarter to two in the morning...
...sure y'don't grab'm raound th'arms like this," the instructor drawled, "or'll slip aout a it. (Slip aout a' it, Lou.)" The silent flunky slipped out of it. Vag squared off with the little shrimp he had picked...
...Every warning to U.S. industry to save about-to-be-scarce metals "invariably resulted in a rush to grab as much as they could of the scarce metals while the getting was good, thus making the shortage even more critical." Sample: by the time dogfood canners were told they could have no more tin, they were sitting on a huge pile of cans already lithographed, which they asked permission to use up. WPB graciously let them go ahead, though Army rations could have gone into those cans just as well as into the new ones the Army was ordering. Says...