Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters' verdict showed that Eire still did not consider World War II or its aftermath her concern. Some observers wondered whether it was not the potato shortage, more than any other factor, that had cost Dev his majority...
...Launched an investigation into potato speculation...
...mouth organ, or harmonica, has been a great comfort to U.S. soldiers in past wars. But priorities in metal have already put a serious crimp in the U.S. harmonica business. This war's comfort is more likely to come from two easily portable and nonmetallic instruments : the "sweet potato," or ocarina, and the tonette...
Today only a handful of virtuoso ocarinists rate the honor of membership in Boss James Caesar Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians. But the "sweet potato" has its quota of passionate partisans...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...