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...Before Mexico took the oil industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
With the example shown in this attraction, it might be worth your while to queue up for forth-coming productions of "Julius Caesar," due in a fortnight, and "Arms and the Man" expected early next month. Also on the schedule are Sheridan's "The Rivals," O'Neils's "Anna Christie," Ibsen's "A Doll House" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth," all of which augur a season of no small magnitude...
Nobody took much notice of the sharp-eyed, unsmiling man, standing in the long queue. Slowly and inconspicuously he moved along with the other 3,500 veterans waiting to buy surplus property at Baltimore's Holabird Signal Corps depot. But the sharp-eyed man was taking plenty of notice of them. Major General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, new War Assets Administrator, was out to get firsthand information on what was wrong with a WAA sale...
...puppet of warlords scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
...addressing an elegant, perfumed gathering of Tory women in London. Viscountess Davidson proudly told how one of her party helpers had used an effective line to discredit Labor's program. When the "No More Fish" sign went up after an hour's wait in a fish queue, this bright Tory had said sarcastically to the angry women: "Well, never mind, ladies. What does it matter?-we own the Bank of England...