Word: quarte
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...Goebbels in the old, crude days of Adolf Hitler's rise to power used to say that nothing was so good for a hostile editor as "one litre of castor oil" (slightly over one quart) administered by Storm Troopers who then waited and guffawed at the result. Such tactics, copied from Mussolini, were often better than beating, but Dr. Goebbels has no need of them today. He held in his thin, knob-knuckled hands last week a new National Press Law making it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a licensed member of a nationwide closed...
...costs the Navy less than a penny a portion. Cash handed out to abstainers represents a clear loss of one penny per day per abstainer. At the end of a month each abstaining British seaman has five shillings rum allowance with which he can buy a whole quart of cheap...
...Dealers of Northern Illinois were last week seeking an injunction against the licensing provisions of a district milk marketing agreement which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had drawn up and a majority of the distributors in the area had signed. This agreement fixed the minimum retail price at 10? per quart beginning Aug. 1. Dealers selling milk at less were made liable to revocation of their Federal licenses and subject to a fine of $1,000 a day. The Independent Dealers objected to the 10? minimum price on the ground that it allowed no differential between the price of delivered milk...
...State are paid on a sliding scale of prices, depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked by the Milk Board's refusal to allow them a better price, last week canceled their deliveries, went on strike. They demanded the abolition of the classified price system, a blanket rate of 45% of the retail price or approximately 5? a quart. The strikers dumped their milk into...
...either hand, the red bulk of the buildings seem to forbid his premeditations; still the Vagabond envisions beyond them his day of country pleasures, sure of fruition, his sunlit dalliance, and his final quart of ale, dish for a Ring...