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When he got back to the White House at week's end he told hurrying photographers who awaited him to take their time, take their time-that was all he had had for a week, he said-nothing to do but loaf. He went inside with the look of a man who had decided not to let it happen again...
...Ration. In London, Mrs. Florence Sparrow brought suit against a bakery when she sliced into a loaf of bread, found a baked sparrow...
...Nine-Cent Loaf. The new government, he announced, will cut the annual outlay for food subsidies from ?410 million down to ?250 million, a slash of 39%; prices will be allowed to rise in the marketplace accordingly. It means, Butler reckoned, that the food bill of every Briton will rise immediately by about 21? a week. Sample increases: milk from 14? to 15? a quart; stewing beef from 23? to 28? a pound; bread from...
...year salary at Kingan because, he said, the job presented a "challenge." It did, in more ways than one. He found that his patient's profit margin was critically low (1½%). He decided to develop high-profit specialty products such as precooked ham loaf, meat spreads and sausages. Willkie also advised a streamlined administration, a big research program, improved sanitation controls and a heavy advertising campaign. The old guard objected to many of Willkie's expensive ideas. Says Willkie: "From the very outset, I [was] blocked and interfered with by the Sinclair family and its palace guard...
...Waits for Me." At Grindelwald last week, Andy was not quite the best; but she wasn't trying very hard, yet. While Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, 1950 downhill champion, might grind through 50 practice runs, Andy would loaf through two, then call it quits. A tall girl (5 ft. 7½ in., 130 Ibs.), but willowy and slim, Andy doesn't take training grimly: she drinks a beer with her meals, and is usually ready to join a friend in a cup of Glüwein (mulled red wine with cinnamon, cloves and sugar). She smokes...