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...ceiling of $18 a 100 lbs. on cattle. The feeders were saving expensive feed by selling their stock, and in their hurry to get out from under, they were shipping animals that averaged 40 to 65 lbs. less than 1944's marketing weights. Should the feed-lot operators trim their herds too sharply, the gristle-tough outlook would be for something close to a meat famine this summer...
...mine, and I've been cutting his hair ever since. The P.M., you know, is an old bachelor, without any wife to check him up, so I always call his office about once every three weeks and remind him that it's about time for a trim. Shampoo? With that little fringe...
...calls for a small force to police the U.S. share of occupied Germany, moving most of the U.S. forces now fighting in Europe to the Pacific. They would probably be staged through the U.S. ( the most direct route) in time to arrive at their new front in fighting trim...
They knew, for example, that the trim little schoolhouse at Westkapelle was doomed. Its floor had become a black mire. Its desks were coated with oil and refuse left by the tide. Soon the whole building would crumble into the sea. But on its blackboard, beyond the water's reach, they had chalked three words: Wij zijn bevrijd-"We are liberated...
...prospects included: trim, smart Anna Rosenberg, labor relations expert for WMC, who would replace Frances Perkins' unfashionable hats with modish millinery from Manhattan Hatter Sally Victor; the A.F. of L. Teamsters' droop-jowled old Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin; War Manpower's Paul McNutt; ex-Pennsylvania Congressman James McGranery. And there was always able, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant, head of the International Labor Office since 1939 and now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...