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...Food Administration, was that in December 1942 big General Foods Corp., and their brokers, Daniel F. Rice & Co., began buying rye futures, i.e., promises of delivery of rye at a future date. General Foods, which ordinarily uses little rye, had a plan to use it in place of corn syrup. By May 1944 General Foods and Rice controlled 11.8 million bu.-almost 89% of the deliverable rye. Other speculators soon realized that a corner was in the making, and they waded into the market with big chunks of cash. The rye pit seethed with all of the excitement...
...Porgy and Bess, fancied up in a symphonic version by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Columbia, 6 sides), and more glossily by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony (Victor, 6 sides), is best in its original operatic mold (Decca, 14 sides). ¶Andre Kostelanetz spreads his corn syrup over The Music of Gershwin (Columbia, 8 sides...
...cousin, the Duke of Windsor: the 28-year-old Prince was well aware that he could never ascend the Swedish throne if he carried out his vow to wed Kerstin Wijkmark, 35, a once-divorced commoner and editor of The Weekly Review, a publication specializing in cheesecake and syrup...
Stingers. In Lewiston, Idaho,Apiarist W. H. Bristol fed his young bees a concoction of sulfathiazole and syrup, fondly hoped their sting might now be antiseptic...
...church which is "only a polite club of nice people with a faint flavor of well-washed piety" can offer convincing proof, concludes Dr. Bell. "The veteran does not need readjustment soothing syrup, coddling, flattery; he needs to be told . . . that if he has any real manhood in him he will regard America as something more than a glorified factory, movie house, ball park and corner drugstore. He needs churches which make it clear that they care about him . . . that the things that really matter ... lie beyond his untrained cognizance . . . that things seen are temporal, relative, secondary; that...