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...first warm breezes, traveling north, carried the familiar small sounds of spring: the honk of wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
...Hollywood, Twentieth Century-Fox last week announced that, for the duration, it would cut all big banquet scenes from its films. In a world of rationing and black markets, sirloins, like sweater girls, have become a shade too seductive...
...assumption that we might be cut off from Hawaiian and even Puerto Rican supplies. Cuba promptly upped production by 15% and produced some 4,500,000 tons of sugar and molasses in 1942 and sold most of it to the U.S. at 2.65? a Ib. f.o.b., only a shade above the 1941 market...
Sporting a brighter shade of Red than the Crimson could offer, a tall, rugged, fast-breaking Cornell team that finally seems to have hit its stride outclassed the Varsity basketball team Saturday night in the Indoor Athletic Building with Harvard bowing 49-34 in their first League start of the season...
...Ursula's book Next Time We Live it was that simple. But the author's real-life current hero was also charged with helping run a reefer flat in Manhattan where marijuana cigarets were smoked by soldiers & sailors. This sort of thing might enchant the shade of Baudelaire, but it is vexing to narcotics squads...