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...Sparks & Spaghetti. Archeologists had rounded up 75,000 specimens of Eskimo handiwork for the university, pieced together exhibits of prehistoric monsters. Campus scientists had collected important data for the Government on magnetism and the upper atmosphere, incidentally scotched an old sourdough's tale that the flashing northern lights set off sparks in their whiskers...
...university going and growing since 1921, President Bunnell has made regular campaigns on the floor of the Territorial Legislature in Juneau. Last week he had a more urgent plea. West Coast shipping strikes had cut off supplies, reduced the university cooks to a bill of fare of soup, spaghetti, and milk from the experimental dairy. Warned President Bunnell: unless the university got quick relief, its students would be "freezing and starving...
...following price complaints have been reported since Tuesday: Liggett's frappes, up to $.25 milkshakes, up to $.20 Mike's Club frappes, up to $.20 Bella Vista Restaurant spaghetti dinner, from $1 to $1.10 (Similar increases on other items) Hazen's grilled cheese sandwich, $.15 to $.20 College Drug Store all ice cream items...
...little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government bought up local wheat at $5 a metric quintal, sold some to Peruvians...