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Whose Victory? The working people are not content. "They are worse than the Japs," says one old peasant indignantly. . . . "At home I cannot give orders to my sons any more. They give orders, they loaf and hold meetings. They are arrogant, and menace everyone with guns. The Japs never touched filial piety...
...Indianapolis last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...
...union leaders, and told the Governor that "functionaries who ordered these arrests don't know the humble pot of beans." The men were released, the strikers went back to work. Bread prices stayed up, but bakers agreed to put 75% of their production in the small, 5 centavo loaf, only 25% in more expensive sizes...
...Half a Loaf. In Honolulu, an aspiring safecracker broke into the Branfleet Sportswear Store, worked long & hard over the safe, finally gave up, turned his attention to a piggy bank, departed with two bits...
...price of bread zoomed. Last week's removal of all but the last remnants of Canada's wartime* controls sent it up an average of 3? a loaf (biggest reported boost: 6? for a 24-oz. loaf in Timmins, Ont.). It was no help to eat cake. Bakeries were all set to charge more for cake...