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Before breakfast was over, women would start thinking about their dinners. The big dish would be turkey or goose or, in the Rocky Mountain States, perhaps venison. In New England there would be squash and plum pudding, in the South rice and yams, in Texas a big cut-glass bowl of homemade, ruby-red agarita jelly...
This sleek plum came with the successful sale of $1,500,000,000 in 2½% Treasury bonds, biggest new money offering since World War I's Liberty Loan drives. Like all Government issues, the new bonds were offered at 100. But the issue's high yield and the shortage of other gilt-edged offerings pushed the bonds 3⅜ points higher within an hour after formal offering. Even when the free riders (persons buying only for quick profit) unloaded, the bonds held firm, dipped only 5/6 point...
Edward R. ("Big Ed") Stettinius was promoted to the post of Lend-Lease Administrator-which will still be supervised by Harry Hopkins. (Stettinius last week telephoned a chum happily, chortled: "I got the plum...
Into this pretty pie Hillsborough's tax collector thereupon thrust his thumb, but his chances of pulling out a plum were rather iffy. Mrs. Cromwell can protest the assessment. Most likely grounds: that she is a resident of Honolulu, not Hillsborough...
...glummer President, reading the reports to the press, might just as honestly have emphasized the bottlenecks, the shortages at hand and to come. But Franklin Roosevelt, beaming like Jack Horner with a plum on his thumb, dismissed his press conference in high humor, with an air of bring-on-the-next-problem, haul-this-one-away...