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...Berlin milk supply by two-thirds, and 9,000.000 German pigs had to be slaughtered in the war's first year because there was not even garbage for them to eat. As early as 1916 ration cards for fats and meat had been introduced, and the "turnip" winter was at hand. In coal and steel production War-time Germany held up, partly because of the capture of Belgian and French mines and blast furnaces. But the immense capacity of Pittsburgh, made available to the Allies even before the United States' entry into the war, easily beat down...
Most memorable hoaxer in We, the People's history was Mollie Ticklepitcher from Turnip Top Ridge, Jasper, Tenn. Down Jasper way, she wrote, she was considered quite a character. She'd mid-wived most of the young'uns in her time and had helped lay out most of the dead ones, too. Never been away from home but wanted like everything to come to New York, particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when...
...loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed amid a shower of glass on the editor's desk...
...Increased taxes sounds easy but it isn't. . . . The turnip is dry. The Administration has only two real alternatives-to cut spending or to print money. If the price of Government bonds should take a serious nose dive, we would have a new bank holiday-or else. The assets of banks, trusts and insurance companies are loaded with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political...
...that he would destroy his reputation, or that of some friend, to make his audience believe that the story running in his head at the moment had happened, had only just happened"). In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished eyes." He was preoccupied with women almost to "madness." In his pursuit of them he sometimes queered himself by saying the wrong thing. He once gloomily reported an unexpected failure, was told he must have been tactless, and admitted "I said I was clean and healthy...