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Police yesterday acted on several leads to tighten their not around two Coop bandits still at large while the Cambridge District Court slapped $50,000 bail on a newly-arrested suspect...
...Kleberg thinks Americans can tighten their belts to help feed the world, because: "We eat too much anyway, especially bread. If necessary we can eat more potatoes, rice or other types of starch, to save wheat. At any rate, we should waste less." But he does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range...
...Tighten up on inflationary bank credit by dropping the Administration's cheap money policy and letting interest rates rise...
...drive to cut Britain's foreign trade deficit, Cripps plans to tighten up the national diet from 2,870 to 2,700 calories a day (U.S. average: 3,450). Standing as far as possible from Marie Antoinette, Cripps drily said: "The public must expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone...
...Evening Standard, which had spurned the vows of secrecy imposed on every other paper, printed a picture purporting to be Elizabeth's wedding dress. It showed only three vague swatches of material draped over a couch, leaving a breathless public in no way wiser, but Elizabeth determined to tighten security measures even further...