Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...
Competition was reduced, pricewise; but it was increased in an unexpected way. The attraction of "sure profits" on fixed prices lured thousands of new merchants into business. As they scrambled for customers, price-cutting returned in another form. Now, in order to undersell the "protected" independents, most large chain stores put out their own brands. R. S. Macy & Co. has over 1,400 such items. Gimbels offers its own brand of bonded liquor...
...into the slime-spattered aisles. Booted and aproned wholesalers waved samples in their faces, and shouted sales to clerks in a code gibberish by which they hoped to hide prices from competitors. By 11 a.m., nearly a million pounds of seafood had been sold. In this business-as-usual way, the biggest fish market in the world passed a historic milestone last week: it was 100 years...
...years. His desk was a card table, his bedroom was his office. In a sloppy dressing gown, Hopkins would traipse through the White House corridors to consult Roosevelt or Churchill. Usually he was miserably ill (cancer, ulcers, numerous complications), but at a word from F.D.R. he was on his way. He usually knew the President's mind so well on any given subject that specific instructions were unnecessary (Roosevelt to Stalin: "I ask you to treat Mr. Hopkins with the identical confidence you would feel if you were talking directly...
...With a Message. One of Rose's best yarns is about Jimmy Durante on a fishing trip. Durante was awakened at 3 a.m. to drive out to the ocean. "On the way to the garage, I noticed he was smacking every tree he passed. 'When I'm awake,' Schnozzola explained, 'no boid sleeps...