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Soon there were quite a few small boats: some mere chips on the waves, with three or four rowing men, some bigger ones, holding a dozen men and driven by leg-o'-mutton sails. In the boats there were fugitives bearing weapons, water cans, cans of rations, automobile inner tubes as sea insurance. The destroyer paused and picked up the fugitives. Then she went on with her not-too-difficult job of tidying up the sea, like a lawn-keeper in a park spiking bits of blowaway paper on a stick...
With barely a glance at the weekend customers milling about the corner butcher shop, Mrs. Stanley Coultas walked into the Halliburton Cold Storage Locker Plant in Des Moines, opened her personal food locker, took out a chunk of mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful...
...Wells, popular historian of the past and of the future: "I have a profound conviction that the newspaper is as dead as mutton and that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial 'News' and shall we not listen then to a summary of what has been happening in the last two or three hours? It seems to me a much more possible and much more...
...Argentina long trains of grey stock cars are chuffing into the terminals, loaded with beef and mutton from the brown seared grasslands of the pampas, stocking up meat faster than the British ships along the wharves can take it away. Eight million tons of wheat and 3,000,000 tons of linseed cram the new elevators of Buenos Aires, Puerto Nuevo, Rosario. The warehouses are filled with hides and wool. There they say what they want after the war: something better for the plain people of the world. Better education, more books, social justice, freedom to come and go, more...
...meat on Britain's account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments of beef, lamb and mutton by about eight million...