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...stands ready to perform any service. The bar is stocked with 116 varieties of liquor, including pisco from Peru, ouzo from Greece, Indonesian arrack, Georgia moonshine from the U.S. and a 140-proof Italian pine liquor, which Fielding says is "really too strong to drink." The basement larder is packed with imported delicacies: pheasant in Burgundy jelly, smoked swordfish, Scotch grouse pâté, quail eggs, Norwegian kippers, whole lychees, albacore tuna from Oregon...
...hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon as he graduated from Brewton's all black Booker T. Washington High School, where he played
...that the farmer had erred in defeating mandatory, high-support controls in last May's wheat referendum and how would be left to his own devices. He did recommend voluntary controls and price supports for potatoes, one of the few freely marketable basic crops left in the national larder. And to the consternation of many, Johnson called for a return to part of the controversial and soundly defeated plan proposed by Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan in 1949: direct Treasury payment to cotton and milk producers...
...Bounty & the Bureaucracy. Such production is both a blessing and a bane to the U.S. Under the Government's inane farm program, it has saddled the taxpayers with surplus worth $6.5 billion. The maintenance cost alone for this larder runs to better than $2,000,000 a day. Worst of all, the bounty has brought with it a bureaucracy the likes of which the U.S. has never seen before...
...this "stocking the larder"-how many people can use 150 jars of pickled pigs' feet...