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...child in North Dakota I used to try to drive the family pigs from one pen to another...
Most startling of all, the War Secretary on one day promoted 2,000 army officers. Mr. Hore-Belisha's pen stroke will cost the British taxpayer $1,800.000 additional the first year in increased officers' pay, later $3,000,000 annually. Under the new regulations "all reasonably competent officers" can expect to serve at least ten years with the rank and pay of major, after which the less competent majors will be given a de luxe bums' rush out of the army, retiring at the early age of 47 to live for the rest of their lives...
...familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years of boom and depression, General Mills' net never rose above $4,609,000, never fell below $3,602,000. Last...
...never before have events so played into his dexterous hands, given him a cast of characters so suited to his talents, created so many situations to outrage his liberalist sensibilities, or presented him with so much international double-dealing, blundering and inhumanity to whet the anger that guides his pen...
...pen-squiggles which he made precipitated, not an immediate downpour of cash upon the parched populace, but a flood of mimeographed announcements by his spending agencies in Washington, vying with each other to do their heavenly duty...