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...Army, whose 600,000 Hungarian-based troops live off the land, requisitioned 4,000,000 tons of wheat, rye, barley, corn and oats during 1945. In a typical prewar year when crops were much more bountiful than now, Hungary's farms produced only 7,189,000 tons of these grains...
...Leipzig, in 1932, while he was conducting a rehearsal, a railing back of him gave way and he fell over backwards, striking his head severely at the base of the skull. A brain tumor operation in 1939 left him partially paralyzed. Then in 1941 he registered at a Rye, N.Y. sanatorium for a rest. The second day he walked out, and the sanatorium director notified the police, who issued a widely publicized nine-state alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane...
...inflation," he said, "a guy can't make a living on the bum any more. You gotta have 15 to 20 bucks a week. Used to be you could walk into the Shamrock and lay down 11? and the barkeep would pour you two stiff shots of rye. Now it costs you 20? a single shot at Frank's or Jack's or the House of All Nations...
Chicago's Board of Trade, dazzled, baffled and bewitched by U.S. grain policies, finally said to hell with it. Last week the board's directors shut down trading in wheat and rye, curtailed trading in corn and barley, canceled $50 million worth of contracts. With the U.S. buying huge quantities of grain directly from farmers for shipment abroad, it was impossible to continue "a free and orderly market." Kansas City and Minneapolis exchanges promptly shut...
...were raccoon coats with built-in hip flasks, plaid-seated convertibles, plenty of Canadian Club; Vag was mentally immersed in a maelstrom of all night parties and lost weekends. He saw the crowds and colors of November Saturday afternoons and smelled the mixed aroma of burning leaves, Chanel, and rye hovering over Soldiers Field. Pretty girls there would be by the score, by the six dozen--the "golden girls." The bright lights and gay scenes revolved in perfect time to the Six Little Tailors, and for once, Vag smiled at the jingle...