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Forty-five students seems an unusually small number compared to the business which used to be carried on in the Massachusetts Avenue cram emporiums. But the Board of Supervisors does not pretend to do a student's work or spot his exam questions for him. Before November Hours Salmon goes on the assumption that a man can do his own work. Between November and mid-years, be expects his clients to number in the two hundreds...
...into chilly Lake Crescent. Sometimes she chopped wood for the fireplace. For exercise the Secretary took hikes among the giant trees, where the wet ferns grow head-high and the epochs-old windfalls of trees are 50 feet high and as solid as a stone fort. Once they went salmon fishing-a pure public-relations gesture from Honest Harold, who loathes the water and once grumbled at riding on the President's yacht Potomac with a crack: "I'm willing to die for the President but I'll be damned if I get seasick...
...Harbor. . .Settled in her first home with globe-girdling James, Romelle Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline of History in 1940, last week typed The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...have trouble getting pumps, electric motors, bathtubs, copper tubing, brass fittings, light fixtures. A good share of the extra dollars that U.S. consumers have to spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
...days after the Conference closed, Britain's Food Minister, Lord Woolton, urged U.S. citizens to "do without" some of their milk, cream, cheese, sugar, canned salmon and meat, send them to Britain to relieve "an unhappy and dull diet." Next day, the first shipload of U.S. Lend-Lease food - eggs, cheese, flour - arrived safely in England...