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...Million to a Quart. At first, fishermen made big hauls of redfish, mullet, and grouper, which fled into the shallow bays and inlets to escape the plague. But their catches stayed in the fish houses. People did not feel like eating fish...
This is no undertaking to mullet the Dining Hall System. The money turned over to Harvard food Relief will be an indirect contribution from University students in response to President Truman's appeal. On the other hand, no one need fear that Lehman Hall is going to make a profit at his expense. Any funds saved above the specified amount will be turned over to the Committee after a general accounting in June...
Georgia's high-handed, lowbrowed Governor Eugene Talmadge had the stage all set for one of his wild political rallies last week. A free fish fry-15.000 lb. of mullet and hushpuppies-had been a-fixing for two days. Little Moultrie (pop. 10,147) was packed with yellow school buses, highway-patrol cars, the sedans of Talmadge's "Palace Guard" at the State Capitol. There was even a bus labeled UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STUDENTS FOR TALMADGE -though when the passengers stuck their heads out for a photographer only two seemed to be under...
Tired of losing money, the State (which owns 72% of the stock) offered to sell the Mullet Line to the Southern Railway. Southern made a survey, found that normal crosstie replacements had been made in only six of the past 26 years, politely declined. State officials hid Southern's survey carefully away and started looking for someone who didn't know any better than to buy the road...
...Mullet Line's future under Harry Edwards looks bright. Specifications for a new Marine air base at Cherry Point call for 32,000 carloads of sand and gravel-more than twice the line's normal annual traffic. Soon to start at Morehead City is a $5,000,000 Marine supply base which will mean still more carloadings...