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White bread-the symbol of American plenty-would have to be displaced by a grey-or cream-colored bread*; the President decreed that wheat flour be made from 80% instead of the normal 70% of the whole grain. Production of whiskey and of other grain alcohol beverages would have to be cut back to wartime levels. Beer brewing would have to be cut by 30% (back to the 1940 rate). The wartime set-aside of pork for Government purchase was reinstated. The President warned the U.S. that it might even have to go back to meat rationing...
Almost everywhere but in the U.S. there was serious shortage-and President Truman's aides had sadly overestimated the U.S. position. In the first postwar rush to bring food shopping back to normal, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson had decided that everything was so rosy that almost all restrictions could be removed. Now, in connection with the President's announcement, he was forced to concede that somehow the nation had 61,000,000 fewer bushels of wheat than he had figured...
...most thoughtful answer came from Percy J. Philip, who covers Ottawa for the New York Times. Said he: "Union of the same kind as exists in normal times between the nations of the British Commonwealth existed between the Commonwealth and the United States during the war. There was no compact or elaborate treaty between them. They were bound only in loyalty to a common idea of liberty. . . . That union still exists and will have to be maintained. But ... if we try to write it down we will destroy the spirit...
...Franklin Roosevelt's day they always carried Home on the Range. Now they are never caught without Missouri Waltz. For the music-loving Harry Trumans they have lately been playing as often as five times a week. Said Santelmann happily: "White House entertaining is getting back to normal...
With the assistance of Gordon E. Peterson, research fellow in the Psycho Acoustic Lab. Davis made painstaking tests to find out more about the workings of the partially deafened ear, and to measure the loudest sound which both normal and defened subjects could tolerate with comfort. Using conscientious objectors as guinea pigs, he was able to design the "theoretically perfect hearing...