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...cars to haul the coal to the freezing cities. On top of this, a temporary food shortage was on the way in many an Eastern city. Freight trains as far west as California were shunted on to sidings to wait till the snarl untangled. While they waited, many a grocer cleaned out his shelves...
...Home Guard never got its chance to preserve Britain from invasion, but it did give Britons something new in military democracy. Many a titled Home Guard had taken orders from his grocer or gardener, and liked...
...well-mannered in private life, William Bendix is probably the world's highest-paid professional ignoramus. As such he now rates star billing at his studio and makes more money than the President of the U.S. He owes his present prosperity an part to his failure as a grocer...
During World War I, when she was subbing as the editor for her husband, a Quitman clergyman used his churchly influence to wheedle a local grocer out of more than his Hooverized share of flour. The news leaked, and Quitman's food administrator cracked down on the parson. The scandal rocked the town. A Quitman banker, chief elder of the church, ordered Miss Edna to write an editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news...
...rationing and heedlessness of high prices have cut down the sales by chains and supermarkets, and have boosted the neighborhood grocer's business. Dollar sales of grocery chains declined 16% during 1943 ; independents showed a 20% gain...