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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...
Reporting these accomplishments to the House of Commons last week, Minister Hudson might have sounded gratified. Instead, he sounded urgent. Wheat acreage must be expanded by another 600,000 acres, said he. There must be a 10% increase in the potato crop, more milk. There must be farming by moonlight to get the job done. To save ships, Britain's green earth would have to provide more food for the factory canteens, more food for Allied mess plates...
Drew's first blast at the commission report on June 5 led to the Government charging him with sedition. Then the Government dropped the charge, as the hottest political potato picked up in years. Still mad, Colonel Drew wrote a 32-page criticism of the commission report. He sent one copy to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie ("Wee Willie") King, other copies to leaders of the Conservative, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and Social Credit parties in the House of Commons. A copy also went to the Canadian press, which sent it out to member papers marked "Hold for Release...