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...butcher and look what I bought for $3.45.' Well, I looked at it, and this is what was there: About a pound and a quarter of a cutlet, about a pound of chop meat, and a little piece of pork which we would say after you trim the fat off it, if it comes to a snowball you have a lot of meat. Now that dinner had to last us Saturday and Sunday for a family of five...
...home owners are expected to hew away at their funded debt this year. Best estimates are that they will trim their mortgages by a staggering $4 billion. This will be 10% more than they paid off last year, and almost four times as much mortgage debt as they retired in 1939. Thus U.S. citizens, long abusively criticized for squandering their fat wartime earnings in nightclubs and swanky shops, actually have been behaving as wisely and thriftily as so many Ben Franklins. In three war years they will have reduced their mortgage debt by $10.9 billion, their annual fixed charges (interest...
...Tiny, trim, hatchet-faced C. Nelson Sparks had published the letter because he thought it proved that "Mr. Willkie is close to the New Deal. . . . Willkie is just a stooge. . . ." Also, the letter added sales value to his book, One Man -Wendell Willkie, in which it appeared...
...England this week, the U.S. Women's Army Corps had the pleasantly apprehensive experience of being inspected by the Corps' Commanding Officer. Trim Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, head woman of the WACs, found everything in order...
...cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers sank her. One destroyer picked up 30 survivors, another six-apparently the only men saved from the Scharnhorst's crew of 1,460. Three British ships had suffered minor damage. The Germans lost their only capital ship in fighting trim, will now have to rely mainly on submarines and airplanes in fighting off the Allied invasion fleets they must soon expect to face...