Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finds. Near Moneta, Wyo., a hunter found an unopened letter in a clump of sagebrush. It was addressed to his mother-in-law, postmarked May 12, 1939. In Hobart, Mich., Ray Loomis found a set of false teeth in his potato patch, returned them to a neighbor who had lost them...
...Ferber has warmed the pair up around New Orleans of the early '80s, she takes them North to Saratoga's United States Hotel. There, as the Comtesse de Trenaunay de Chanfret (incognito), Clio sets the town by its ears. She breakfasts at six in the stables, eats potato chips outdoors, sets other new styles. She also sets her cap and her talons for railroad multimillionaire Bart Van Steed, the most eligible bachelor in the Western Hemisphere...
This Catholic dilemma traces back to the shortage of priests when America's first great flood of Catholic immigrants-the Irish-arrived in the wake of the 1845 potato famine. Rather than have these largely rural Irish scatter to country districts and lose their faith through lack of contact, the American hierarchy under the leadership of New York's Archbishop John Hughes decided it would be better to concentrate them in the cities, where the relatively few priests available could cope with the crowds...
...potato patch stretch nets of trip wires leading from guns and mines. The slope is honeycombed with tunnels, dugouts, telephone centers and munitions dumps. Dozen upon dozen of mortar shells still stand there, packed in boxes. . . . Here, beside piles of stretchers, is a great plot of turned-up earth, 400 yards square, where the Germans had swiftly buried their dead as they withdrew. A Russian anti-tank gun, wreathed in boughs, now stands there...
...this strange spree, most Chicago spudmen credited the Government's own bulletin (Demand & Price Situation), which predicted: "somewhat higher prices this winter." Potatoes were in a cheerful statistical position anyway. This year's harvest will be 374,000,000 bushels, 24,000,000 below last year, with demand way up. (Not only are Army and Navy big buyers, but canned or dehydrated spuds soon may go to Britain.) Also entrancing to speculators was another fact: there is no such thing as a potato carryover. Since potatoes cannot long be stored, each year's harvest must be eaten...