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...restaurants (a quantity market), and so into small retail markets. But OPA set no ceiling. Item: the Western cattlemen loudly prophesied that the results of a ceiling on their cattle prices would be less beef for all, housewives included, and furthermore that the beef would be of a poorer quality...
...through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...
...dedication to petty crime; yet his meaning, as an embattled young man of his century, has been rather clarified than muddied in the movie. He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand goods shop, fending off the devotions of a gently Bohemian cellist (Jane Wyatt) and, rather against his will, falling harder & harder...
...Hopson experiment was not an unqualified success: the machine picking, less selective than hand methods, produced a poorer grade of cotton. But Business Week reported last week that the saving in labor costs more than made up for the loss in quality...
...many an Allied observer, fresh from belt-tightened Britain, Europe's farms looked unexpectedly lush and prosperous, Europeans looked surprisingly healthy and well-fed. Much of the appearance was misleading. In Western Europe, the well-to-do had enough to eat. But among the poorer population, particularly in the city slums, there was not enough food. Nowhere did the liberators see starvation. But constant semi-starvation and diet deficiencies were leaving their mark on a whole European generation...