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When World War II began, many Americans were 1917-wise, outsmarted themselves by buying up staple groceries in which they expected a famine. A squirrel's panic (TIME, Sept. 23) forced price rises and even trade shortages in flour, canned goods, lard, and especially sugar, which rose from 4.40? to 5.75? a pound in one week. But by last week few housewives were laying by sugar any more. And speculators wondered whether sugar is still a good short sale. The beet price had fallen to a new all-time low, just .04? below the 3.426? a pound bottom...
With all the audacity of a squirrel that finds a nut and then points to it instead of hiding it, diminutive Portugal last week rashly called attention to herself and her empire-fourth largest area in the world-by proclaiming a six-month festival to celebrate the Sooth anniversary of her independence and the tercentenary of her restoration following 60 years under Spain...
...lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...
According to Biographer Smith, in 1775 young Henry Dearborn, hearing of a battle at Lexington, closed his doctor's office in Nottingham, N. H., shouldered his squirrel rifle and marched off to the Revolutionary War-the beginning of a valorous career which made him a lieutenant colonel before he was mustered out in 1783. He became a major general of the militia, a Massachusetts Congressman, and, in the Cabinet of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary...
Most of the panels are a strange blend of allegory and realism. Sample melange: Red Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward...