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...more than one occasion, British girls, highstepping down their village streets with Negro boys, were forcibly stopped by Southern U.S. white troops. When British soldiers and civilians defended the right of the women to choose their own escorts, military police of both colors and nations had to haul off their battling charges...
...proceedings became even more like real war when the armies began to break the rules of sham battle. In the Blues' prison camp the entire haul of Red prisoners overcame their guards by violence, ran back to their own side to fight again...
Main difference is that this year's oyster haul is estimated at only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...
...upon size. Since there is no OPA ceiling on fresh oysters, prices might have gone still higher except that hotels and restaurants balked, said they could not pay more when their oyster bar prices have been pegged at a flat 50 or 60? per dozen for years. With the haul down more than prices are up, the U.S. oyster industry will take in about $8,000,000 this year, somewhat less than...
...Midwest stocks, even if made available, are blocked to the East by price hurdles as OPA, ODT, OPC, and WPB play their separate games for political control. It costs at least one cent more per gallon to bring oil east via the Great Lakes than it does to haul it by rail from Texas. Another difficulty is that gasoline still is more profitable to sell than fuel oils. Higher fuel oil profits in the East, smaller gasoline profits in the entire country might perform strange wonders...