Word: reindeer
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...Aklavik, dinner tables groan under inch-thick steaks (reindeer and caribou), heaping mounds of butter, jam, other war-scarce delicacies. Aklavik women, most of them Eskimos and Leacheau Indians, have all the silk stockings they need, can frequently be heard mildly bewailing "the third pair I've ruined this week." All sorts of consumer goods are available...
Still only six months old, Lady Moe has been written up in Stars & Stripes. Her pictures have been widely printed in the British press. She is asked everywhere. This week her crowded calendar includes playing a reindeer (if antlers can be found) at the squadron's Christmas party for English school children. In January, Lady Moe will attend a charity ball in London's Grosvenor House...
Besides miniature bananas, palm trees and pedigreed dogs, Ben has also trimmed hats with models of penguins, reindeer, Ferdinand the Bull, Red Cross nurses, Chinese coolies with water jugs, and nude "Folies-Bergère" dancers. He is already planning for the 1944 elections: hats trimmed with elephants and donkeys. But his biggest innovation for the out-of-this-world hat business is his refusal to sell any hat exclusively...
...Quail and rabbit in some parts of the U.S. are threats to crops, gardens. > Fewer than 200 reindeer "planted" after World War I on Nunivak Island, off the coast of Alaska, have grown to a herd of 19,000. Since the island will support only about 10,000 reindeer, the surplus must be killed...
Thieving Santa. In Evansville, Ind., somebody who may or may not have arrived by reindeer climbed down the chimney of a barbecue, gathered up two shoulders of meat, 25 pounds of ribs, $18, went up the chimney and jingled away...