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Both the freshman and jayvee quintets move back into action tonight following the exam-period lapse when they meet easy opponents before getting into the meatier parts of their spring term schedules. The Yardlings take on Tabor Academy at Morion while the Jayvees entertain Newman Prep on the Blockhouse floor...
Nowhere in the world were there meatier, tastier ducks than those which the Emperor Tung Chi raised in the Imperial aviaries at Peking, China. In 1873 a Connecticut Yankee named James E. Palmer contrived to bring three of the Emperor's ducks and one indispensable drake to the U.S. This quacking quartet hatched an industry...
Ploesti. For the Allied cause as a whole, Ploesti's capture would have been a meatier triumph six months ago than it was last week. Germany is already so parched for oil that its motorized transport is grinding to a stop on all fronts. Allied air attacks on Ploesti have reduced its rate of annual output from 5,500,000 metric tons to 2,000,000. Nevertheless Ploesti in August was still providing Germany with about one-third of its total natural and synthetic oil, and Allied airmen still bombed Ploesti as a prime target...
...turkey that Mr. Morgenthau and his luncheon guests expect to cut so soon after the New Year will probably include a far meatier excess-profits tax, fatter taxes on corporation incomes, higher personal-income taxes. It might include the 15% withholding tax on salaries that Mr. Morgenthau wanted last month, increased Social Security taxes, compulsory joint returns for husbands & wives. It will probably be at least $5 billion bigger than 1941's bill...
...Franz von Papen, had failed to impress Turkey's astute little President. Ismet Inonii. Asked how he had managed to withstand the foremost Nazi pressure ex pert, the President declared: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." Not deaf was Tur key's leader to less polished but meatier promises of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Last week his country firmly snubbed the Axis by signing a comprehensive economic agreement with Britain. By her sharp barter tactics Germany had corralled 54% of Turkey's ex port trade, regarded her as an essential source of supply...