Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden rush to buy potatoes turned Chicago's Mercantile Exchange last week into a madhouse. Sweating and shouting, scores of traders jammed the potato arena, in a single day bought a record 479 carloads (normal day: under 10), whanged prices from $3.10 to $3.75 per 100 pounds...
Biddle (known in Washington as "Mushmouth," because of his hot-potato accent) then practiced law, served as special assistant U.S. attorney, and in due time, with the backing of New Dealing Philadelphia Publisher Dave Stern, became chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1934-35). He could hardly have picked a New Deal agency which his neighbors trusted less or hated more...
Best-selling popular songs in London are Tolchard Evans' Forty Million Churchills, Noel Coward's London Pride, and Michael Carr's The Day I Met His Majesty the King. Food shortages have brought forth such appetizers as Hugh Charles's & Sonny Miller's Potato Pete and the sad-refrained...
...beginning of last week, 40 fledgling pursuit pilots from the advanced training school at Kelly Field (Texas) were trying their P-40 wings. At week's end, there were 39: fog-trapped Lieut. Robert E. Hetrick of Dimondale, Mich, tried to nose into a Long Island potato patch, overshot. Apparently his motor failed when he tried to recover, and he died in the crash...
...Japan became embroiled with the U.S.S.R., the U.S. would almost certainly cut off supplies of oil to Japan. Only the fear that Japan would attack The Netherlands East Indies for oil has so far kept the U.S. from putting a potato in the spout...