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...Manhattan is Saks Fifth Avenue. Its idea of an advertising superlative is to describe a dress, corset, necktie or suitcase as "very Saks Fifth Avenue." Astonished, therefore, were New Yorkers to read last week that Saks Fifth Avenue was about to branch to William Edgar Borah's potato paradise of Idaho. Name of the town: Ketchum...
...high platform in the centre of the huge tent kitchens sat Supreme Culinary Chief Berchert giving orders into a microphone to thousands of German potato peelers, cooks and garbage workers. Each of seven enormous trucks held 34 big cooking pots or cauldrons heated by Diesel burners. Like cement from a cement mixer seething soups and stews flowed from these to be rushed on 400 light trucks to some 800,000 robust and hungry Germans, the rest being fed in Nürnberg homes and hotels. In the modest little Hotel Deutscher Hof, where one Adolf Hitler used to stay when...
...mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...
...cans and scraps of lumber, not quite half the expected capacity crowd of 22.000 turned up for the first day of the meet. Until a drenching thunderstorm chased them home, they sat in puzzled silence watching a succession of events run off about as systematically as the potato races at a church bazaar...
...prices climbed last week, potatoes began to appear from unsuspected quarters. In Manhattan heavy shipments from North Carolina helped send old crop quotations crashing from $4.40 per bag to $3.50. New potatoes tumbled from $7.75 per bbl. to $5.50. Speculating in potatoes is ticklish business because there is no potato futures market, and operators find it hard to unload in a hurry. In last week's flurry a number of speculators were caught with their hands full of hot potatoes. And cool week-end rains in the East did not add to their comfort...