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Newspapers in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and way stations ran scare stories about the most unthinkable food shortage yet, a black market to end all black markets. This time it was potatoes. With other food shortages already makin dinner planning a hollow mockery (see cut), outraged housewives wanted to know why this latest outrage. How could the U.S. be out of potatoes...
...most small-town rich boys, young Elmer grew up a little apart. His mother and aunt, former schoolteachers, started his education long before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch Hollow, he was soon known as an intellectual. Oldtimers remember him as a plump youngster (from a heavy appetite for beefsteak and cake), with a large, serious head thrust inquiringly forward, a stiff-legged, determined walk, a penchant for burying his nose in a book. In baseball games he was always...
...unsubtle comparisons of the Hitler and Roosevelt governments are mere hollow re-cchoings of the reactionary chant of the politically blind and deaf: the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Legion, the Tydings-Cox-Dics entente in Congress. His branding of Administration officials as "Nazi New Dealers" carries the systematic trend towards national distrust and confusion one step further. It borders on sedition...
...making the cut no more than one (i) inch of cod or udder fat shall be left on the flank side of the loin. The 10-inch measurement shall be made from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra and not from the hollow of the chine bone where the 13th rib joins the 13th thoracic vertebra." Said Nebraska's Senator Hugh A. Butler: "The whole thing's nutty...
...fall term, the Blood Donor Service of the War Service Committee has made over three hundred appointments for students to donate blood, a more than satisfactory showing. Yet Harvard's contribution has been a disappointment, because the nod of the head to the solicitor has often proved a hollow promise. Over half of these appointments have not been kept, nor have the delinquent donors even bothered to notify the Center in advance. The staff and equipment stands idle because some Harvard student lost his nerve, or simply forgot. The irregularity of applicants in keeping appointments has so far caused...