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All over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain...
One evening this week, the chiefs of the South American missions in Washington stamped the snow from their feet and filed into Blair House, on Pennsylvania Avenue. Only one nation was absent -Argentina. A few minutes later that absent neighbor stood accused of virtually every crime in the book against...
" . . . Dass ich sehe, wer mich besiegt Und wer meine Uhr gekriegt!" (". . . That I may see who conquered me And who got my watch!") The audience roared, clapped, stamped, and the conductor had to oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that...
They fled-Nano, Romana, the sister and the brother-to the lowlands of Shantol, then to the tiny village of Malabo. The Japs were always close behind; sometimes Romana crawled along the ground under sniper fire to beg or steal food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano...
"No Boats, No Votes." Although they were doing their best, the Army and Navy knew that the clamor could not be calmed. Some servicemen overseas were almost psychopathic in their anxiety to get home. Without themselves aboard, the departure of any ship for home seemed out of order. In the...