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...Good day" in Japanese is Konnichi wa (literal translation: "As for today . . ."). Another idiom: to say "I want whiskey," Japanese observe politely Toki-doki uisuki ga hoshii desu ("Now and then whiskey is desirable...
...last week took its biggest single step yet toward future self-sufficiency in rubber. The Department of Agriculture okayed a $25,000,000 project to plant 45,000 acres in the Southwest with guayule (wa-yu-ley), a tough, sagebrush-like plant containing 20-22% pure rubber...
Operating now on both edges of the continent, blue-eyed, greying Jimmy Wa ters commutes back & forth by airplane two or three times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside, Calif. He eggs his salesmen on with contests in which they win chances on a punchboard (two for selling a De Soto, one for a Plymouth) containing $35,000 in prizes...
...Rhythm On the River," for the benefit of all magnolia-hating Yankees, is not dreamy-eyed hogwash about the Mississippi befo' de wa'. The "River" is the Hudson; the "Rhythm" is snappy; and there is very little about the show that is dreamy-eyed. The story concerns a song writing tycoon (variously surmised as a take-off on--(1) George Gershwin, (2) Cole Porter, (3) Palestrina) who has lost his touch; ergo, he hires two very substantial looking ghosts, baby-face Bing Crosby and anything-but-baby-face Mary Martin. The Crosby-Martin arrangement gets hot, finally takes the tune...
...Government by gifts of money. But we can send millet, if the soldiers eat it on the Western Front. We can also send them indigo to paint their skins with if it is cold on the front. Inshallah!-at the end of this war the Alaman will be Finish wa Dismiss...