Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose red-faced Kansas Republican Clyde Martin Reed: "You are going directly contrary to the law. This is absolutely the worst case of bad faith I have ever seen." Charged potato-minded Maine Republican Ralph O. Brewster: "You have condemned us to 65% of parity . . . we've got to move 15,000,000 bushels of potatoes and you have forbidden us the parity price provided by law." Fast-moving Jimmy Byrnes came back with a rush, explained that he was only doing what the President had told him to do. Snapped the ex-Supreme Court Justice: "If I believed...
Then, on June 11, 1940, came the first air raid. It was little more than a token to show Malta that Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
Afterward Mrs. J. E. Pigott, wife of a Tylertown merchant, helped the Secretary to dinner. On his paper plate she heaped fried chicken, chicken pie, potato salad, warm spice cake, two kinds of pie. "This is a great idea," he beamed...
...double-elliptical, high-uffen-buffen, double-turreted, back-acting submarine war junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
...parity. So far, no farm ceiling has been imposed at any level, but last week, with steers and hogs fetching over 130% and 125% of parity, Leon asked the Secretary of Agriculture about price-fixing to ease pressure on packers and butchers. Claude Wickard recognized a hot potato when he saw it, decided to let it cool a while...