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...whole nation had the air of a man waiting. The economy twitched a little, nervously. With reflexes conditioned by World War II, consumers started a rush on cars, tires, nylons, washing machines and refrigerators, soap and even toilet paper. (A Chillicothe, Mo. man wrote his grocer: "Give me 100 pounds of sugar before those hoarders...
...This is one of the happiest days of my life," trilled Grocer Billy Brown of Whitby, Yorkshire, as he hung the Union Jack outside his shop. "I'm sick of points. With me, it's been nothing but scissors, scissors, scissors for years...
During 8½ years, to be exact, Grocer Brown and his fellow food merchants in Britain had snipped their scissors at some 68 billion pesky, elusive food coupons in the ration books of Britain's housewives, stored them in little tins to send to the Food Ministry at the end of each month. Each year they had filled out 20 million official forms. At 5:02 p.m. one day last week the Ministry called a halt to the point system. Formerly, a housewife had to decide how to divide her points between canned fish and fruit, molasses, rice, jellies...
...critics of big chains Ling Warren has a ready answer: mass-buying by large chains in the past half-century has reduced the housewife's food bill by 50%, mainly by cutting out middlemen's charges. Says Warren: "The oldtime cor ner grocer was usually the underprivileged slave of intermediary dealers...
...father was a wholesale grocer who became president of the St. Louis Hydraulic-Press Brick Co. There was neither smoking nor drinking in the Eliot household. The Eliots were a literary-minded family: evenings, Tom, his brother and his five sisters would cluster around father as he read Dickens to them. Tom's mother wrote a dramatic poem on the life of Savonarola. Tom Eliot was a frail and quiet child. Often, when friends wanted him to come out and play, they found him curled up in a big leather armchair, reading...