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...beer Mencken loves "competence ... in any art or craft from adultery to zoology." This book is further testimony to his own competence as the nation's comical, warm-spirited, outstanding village atheist. He still stands ready to convulse, while he instructs, those fellow citizens who are willing to loaf a little on the village green...
...rationing-and a whale of a lot more trouble. They vainly searched for grandmother's serrated bread knife, routed sleepy husbands out of bed, held dawn conferences over bakery handouts which read like a golf lesson: "Keep your head down. Keep your eye on the loaf. And don't bear down." Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices which even the toaster refused, often a mad dash to the corner bakery for rolls. But most housewives sawed, grimly on-this war was getting pretty awful...
Senator Reed would solve this problem by boosting the ceiling on flour by 58? a barrel. Such a move might inflate the cost of living by adding 1? a loaf to the price of bread. A better solution would be to permit the Commodity Credit Corp. to sell part of its vast holdings of surplus wheat at less than parity. But this has been resisted by Congress. So, more likely, OPA may take the easiest way out, grant the millers a subsidy. To grain men, this would be crowning folly...
...risen from 8? per package of ten to $20.* Camels have gone from 40? per pack of 20 to $200. Throughout China today it is a commonplace to find chicken selling at $20 a lb., coffee at $150 a lb., coal at $900 a ton, bread at $5 a loaf, electric light bulbs at $140 apiece, gasoline at $70 a gallon...
Sitting in a cool grove of rubber trees, the Australians ravenously ate meat loaf with mashed potatoes, peach shortcake, bread and tea. Only then, as the tropic dusk came swiftly, did one Australian speak. "Give me a few days," he said, "and I'll be ready for another go at them...