Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zoos have been little affected by the war. Most of the food they need (hay, grain, green vegetables, horse meat) is unrationed. To replace scarce bananas they now serve a sweet potato; instead of Japanese ants, favorite food of many a zoo bird, they dish out a dried New Mexican water bug. Almost no animals have been imported in two years; zoos breed their own, and swap surplus stock. Lions are almost free for the asking...
...right-of-way, armed soldiers stood guard.* Hawkeyed secret-service men swarmed about the roped-off stations. At the stops were cheering crowds, parading soldiers, marching WAACs; and always, above, clouds of planes. At Fort Benning, Ga. there was a sham battle with deafening noise-an improvised grenade (a potato stuffed with gunpowder) hit the President's car; at Maxwell Field, Ala. the signals got crossed: soldiers puffed 15 times over the obstacle course before a halt was called. After the Army camps came the Douglas bomber plant at Tulsa...
Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve...
March and April are usually small potato months, since they fall between the two growing seasons. But this time potatoes were so scarce that the Department of Agriculture considered making a public appeal to U.S. spud-eaters to leave the skins on (Agriculture experts allege that 21% of a potato is wasted when it is peeled). OPA stewed over a possible realignment of ceiling prices. But unless bad weather makes things worse, potato prospects should get brighter by early summer: the 1943 production goal is 3,260,000 acres, 17% above last year's high level. By June...
...Chicago, Emily Sekoskey, who complained in court that her boy friend had put off paying his share of their Dutch treats for four years and then married somebody else, won a $179.89 judgment against him for half of 250 purchases, including a package of pistachio nuts, a bag of potato chips, a Mother's Day card, and an ice-cream cone...