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...barrels, exported them for human consumption to France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Most of the raw material was wild range horses raised on 15 Chappel-owned ranches, which total 1,500,000 acres, in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chappel products are several? puppy ration, kitty ration, kennel biscuit, pheasant meal, and leather specialties, besides food for grown dogs and foreigners? but P. M. Chappel has never attempted to sell horse meat as food for U. S. humans...
Celebrating "fizz-night" a week before the Oxford-Cambridge boat-race, Oxford and Cambridge oarsmen gathered last week in their respective training quarters near Putney, England. To each was served, instead of the measly training-table ration of one glass of port or 1½ pints of beer, a full, fat bottle of champagne. After watching the crews train for six weeks, critics said: "Neither can be called really good...
...avert a riot, England's merchants, hard-pressed themselves by the Depression, began to dole out food to the hungry. More than 300 were each supplied with a ration worth $2.75. Fearful of a repetition of the raid, Lawyer Morris declared: "These people just simply got hungry. The merchants of England must either move their goods or mount machine guns on their stores...
...chemistry come in. . . . "I have been experimenting with milk now for about eight years. For the last three years I have taken hardly anything else.* I came in with milk [he chuckled] and I guess I'll go out with it. It's the only balanced ration-balanced by the Great Chemist, who is far away." [He raised his stubby pencil over his head, toward the ceiling.] Will science tell us to eat less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. After the age of 21 a large...
...would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked a napkin in his collar and quietly swigged his ration of milk from a thermos bottle...