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What the pilot of the plane probably does not realize is that during this phase of the show he had the most enthusiastic, if the smallest, rooting section in the world. Our only regrets were 1) that he did not pick us up, and 2) that he did not return with more of his friends...
Main difference is that this year's oyster haul is estimated at only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...
...next place. Eliot, despite the 120 members of the House who signed pledges, only had a total of $45 pledged, and the $35 worth of bonds and stamps sold last week fell $10 short of the amount promised. Dunster had only 35 men signed up, by far the smallest number of any of the Houses, and only $30 was pledged, and $38 collected...
...Practically everything was done to church members to make the money roll out of their pockets except stand them on their heads. There were pledges, mite boxes (for children's pennies) which yielded as much as $100 a week. Special publicity promised church members who pledged even the smallest amount that their names and their children's names would be printed on a vast parchment scroll to be permanently displayed in a glassed niche cut in the church wall...
...jolted Washington with its bland statement that consumer sugar stocks were "only slightly below normal" and that there was no need for rationing. Up jumped the Agriculture Department: "Sugar for use in the continental U.S. is expected to be the smallest in 20 years." Then, with a so-there flip of its head, the Department added: "Rationing is necessary." OPA-which doled out the 130,000,000 sugar-ration cards-quickly and emphatically agreed...