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...period when new automobiles suddenly disappeared and a rubber tire brought $30 to $40, no questions asked. In that year ice cream was limited to ten flavors, and there was an abrupt end to such goods as metal hair curlers, refrigerators, radios and beer in cans. In Washington, the Wafflebottom Club was founded-for businessmen who spent long hours warming cane-bottom chairs in the anterooms of Government agencies. The drinking public discovered to its horror that every blast of a 16-in. gun consumed 60 precious gallons of alcohol in its powder...
Latest organization in Washington is The Wafflebottom Club, so named because its businessmen members wait long hours on cane-seated chairs in Government anterooms. (World War I also saw waffle-bottoms...
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