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...piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni, aspirin, second-hand sewing machines...
...City, N.C., the chamber of commerce worried lest its annual potato festival, scheduled for this week, be spudless. In Baldwin County, Ala., so many trucks were lined up to grab up the first of the spring crop that the police had to be called out. For the spaghetti and macaroni trade, the shortage was the best news in years. Buffalo's Gioia Macaroni Co. reported its sales had doubled in the past three weeks...
...celebrate National Hat Week, Boston businessmen last week chose a Hat Queen for 1951. In San Francisco, where Miss Pacific Purchaser was already reigning, wine producers crowned a National Vintage Queen. In Dallas, a Macaroni Queen was crowned with a tiara of dry macaroni, and the Texas Rice Promotion Association named a Rice Queen, whose first proclamation from the throne was: "I just love to eat rice, I really do." Others currently receiving the royal treatment: Miss Freight Forwarder...
...plastered on posters, stamped on ash trays and handkerchiefs, brooches and earrings. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia put it on postage stamps. It was stamped on tickets to rallies in France and on banners to fly over the rallies; in Belgium, they made it out of spaghetti and macaroni for sale to peace-lovers. On U.S. automobiles in France, little dove stickers appeared, with the words "American, go home. We want peace...
Last year emotion ran so high that French crowds yelled "Macaroni!" and "Dirty Fascists!" at the Italian team, and one superheated patriot knocked veteran Gino Bartali off his bike. The outraged Italian team withdrew, and the French Foreign Ministry sent formal regrets to the Italian ambassador. Tempers have since simmered down, but this year's route bypasses Italy, just in case of reprisals...