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This summer more U.S. citizens than ever before will ponder the hippopotamus, resting on his belly in the mud, will regard the hooded cobra, the shuffling, suddenly acrobatic chimpanzee, the reflective giraffe, the plaintively greedy bears. U.S. zoos expect the largest crowds in history. Reason: all zoos can be reached by bus, streetcar or A-cards...
With the technical advice of three grownups, J.A. members rotate the dull jobs and the executive ones, decide the relative merits of expansion v. current dividends, ponder how to stay solvent (they rarely go broke). In peacetime they concentrated on gadgets-cigaret boxes, desk sets, junk jewelry, garden furniture. War hit them with just about all the troubles that plague their elders, except contract renegotiation and absenteeism (which is rare, since the six to twelve hours of weekly work is fun at wages that run up to 35? an hour...
...Ponder on it, Bill. There are untold possibilities, the beauties of the spring sowing and the harvest, for instance, about which Wallace Woodworth could improvise a pastoral symphony in 100 voices. Can't you envision the swaying bodies of the reapers (brought in by the Student Union in truckloads from everywhere) and the rhythmic motion of their scythes. And then there are the social possibilities. Corn husking bees, with red ears a-plenty. Square dances in Dillon Field House, with chaff upon the floor...
...thought it would be helpful for the world to know that the U.S. is ready & willing to help in maintaining future peace. In fact, plans are already afoot for as many as six United Nations conferences on various phases of the whole postwar problem. One such conference, to ponder questions of nutrition and food distribution, would be held within two months-in some small town, he hoped, any town other than Washington. In Washington the press gave too much interference...
...Reader Lacey ponder other Agriculture Department figures; 54% of the total U.S. farm increase in milk production in 1942 over 1941 came from the 500,000 lowest-income farms, 5% of the increase in pork, 10% eggs, 32% beef, 19% chickens...