Word: potatoes
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...Vanishing Buffalo. The world did indeed change in Mark Sullivan's lifetime. The tenth child of Irish Catholics who fled the Great Potato Famine of 1847, he was born in 1874 on their farm in Avondale, Pa. At 17 he marched into a daily newspaper office in nearby West Chester and landed a job as a reporter. In two years he had saved $150, bought a half-interest in a nearby daily, and prospered. He decided that he needed more education, and sold out his share for $5,500 to pay his way through Harvard College and Law School...
Elizabeth's Diary. The dead man was Sir Jack Drummond, 61, famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated...
Price Controls. No prices were lowered by the bill, but many will probably be raised because of it. The bill sensibly prohibits controls on fresh fruits and vegetables, since the recent potato scandal demonstrated that they don't work. But the bill also took controls off processed fruits and vegetables, including frozen foods, baby food, soups and most canned goods. Since most such foods were already pressing against their ceilings, OPS predicted they would go higher. An amendment tying ceiling prices to state minimum price laws is also expected to boost the price of milk in 17 states...
Drunk & Fired. Gene Howe was the son of the moody, melancholy Ed Howe, the "Sage of Potato Hill," who made his Atchison (Kans.) Globe one of the most quoted papers in the nation and wrote Story of a Country Town, a bitter novel about small-town Babbittry. But young Gene Howe never had an easy time of it. He quit high school after two months, was often at odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene...
...Except on potatoes, where OPS ceilings had helped create a woeful shortage and black market. Last week, after the Senate demanded it, OPS abandoned its potato ceilings...