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...formulas written by Congress. The slide-rule answers nearly always meant that prices went up a little bit here, a little more there. On a few typical days last week OPA hiked ceilings on autos (7%), cotton textiles (7%), kid leather (30%), sofas (6%), hot-water bottles (10%), oilcloth (13½%), enamel kitchen utensils (5%). Off went ceilings on window washing, contract janitorial service, sour cherries and imported food specialties...
Last week the lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...
Coastal cities snapped up everything black that could be used for light-proofing: cloth, oilcloth, automobile-top covers. Stores pulled out old stocks that had been on the shelves since black petticoats and bloomers went out of style, sent orders for millions more to textile factories...
...Linoleum and oilcloth makers consume soybean oil in large amounts...
...Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into the air, strike the screen, fall into the tank. Turkeys are known to be great eaters of grasshoppers but the Department of Agriculture declared last week that even if all the turkeys in the U. S. were concentrated in North...