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...religious regularity, pausing occasionally for tea (see cut). All disputes about interpretation are put to a majority vote. On their long Pullman hops they are incessant poker and bridge players, winning and losing substantial sums among themselves. Their drinking habits, not nearly as blended as their tone, are: Roismann, tomato juice; Alexander Schneider, Burgundy; Kroyt, vodka; Mischa Schneider, milk...
...foods turned many a small grocer into a coupon-counting insomniac, he launched his pointless store. He shrewdly stocked an 18-by-60-ft. store with hundreds of unrationed items, included "something almost as good" for all rationed foods. For butter and oleomargarine he had apple butter, honey and tomato preserves; for meat, chicken and turkey a la king (in glass jars), fish flakes, packaged spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce; dehydrated and powdered soups for canned...
...most part Father was satisfied with daily visits to the police station, where he set the captain right on the finer points of criminology and checked the mechanisms of the patrolmen's pistols. Ants worried him; he spent feverish hours tracking them through the house, out into the tomato patch, over the wall into the rose bed of the Women's Club. There he destroyed ants' nests and tea roses in one immense conflagration of gasoline-soaked rags. When not invited to take the chair of a particular committee, Father was likely to turn up and take...
...maze of steel rails that stretches for miles along the New Jersey shore across from Manhattan, 8,000 loaded boxcars stood idle last week, waiting for their war freight to be moved to ships. The blight of manpower shortage had moved from New Jersey's tomato canning (TIME, Aug. 30) to an even more critical field...
...different. Spending money in large gobs is not only possible but obligatoiy. A chocolate malted milk in one of Anchorage's excellent drugstores costs 40?. Ice cream is $1 a quart. A haircut is $1.50. A shoeshine is a quarter. So is a loaf of bread or a tomato...