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Most housewives, meanwhile, were taking rationing in their stride. Bakers, candy makers and soda-pop makers (cut to 70% of 1941 use) got along with substitutes, complete elimination of some lines, and good old American ingenuity. But restaurants and hotels (slashed to 50% of 1941 consumption) howled for more...
Added to the need for extra cars is the difficulty created by inability of the services to order cars far in advance. Instead of an order for a lower to Washington on the 6:15 next week, the old-fashioned Pullman office in Chicago now takes in its stride an order for 212 cars to be at Great Lakes Naval Training Station by 3 p.m. tomorrow...
Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...queen-Hearst Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons-is not exactly dead. But her whims no longer command Hollywood. She still has 17,000,000 newspaper circulation, according to Hearst's I.N.S., through "several hundred outlets." But at one stride Hedda had reached a circulation of 5,750,000 daily (7,500,000 Sunday) through only 27 papers...
...next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness and only one-fifth of a second slower than the record for a mile and three...