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This half-hour mock air raid furnished the wow-at-the-finish of the Fifth Annual Police Show last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It also scared the whey out of the 50,000-odd New Yorkers who bought tickets to it. The cast consisted of more than 700 New York cops and units from the city's new corps of 100,000 air-raid wardens. Sound effects were rebroadcast British recordings of one of last September's air blitzes, described by the excited cop announcer as "the London terrible bombings...
...amended bill in which the signal thing not amended was the House figure: $725,000,000.* The full Appropriations Committee (Chairman: Senator Glass) promptly approved the subcommittee's handiwork 17-to-7, reported it out to the Senate. There, Senator Adams predicted, "We will probably get the whey beat out of us ... as usually happens when the subcommittee makes an honest effort to economize...
Franklin Roosevelt, thinking of the whey, may well have grinned at this remark, feeling sure that in the present struggle between economizers and spenders, the economizers cannot win a substantial victory. For $150,000,000 is only a drop in this year's $9,500,000,000 budget-and the corollary of a Permanent Body of Unemployed is a Permanently Unbalanced Budget...
...used to dump their surplus casein, later discovered their dumping grounds had become fertile fields. In 1898, Casein Co. of America started making casein commercially. Manufacturing process is relatively simple: after skim milk, which has a 3% casein content, has soured, the curd (crude casein) is separated from the whey; the curd is then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine and wall paper...
...little wine for thy stomach's sake." His wife scurried out for elderberry wine, fed him a few spoonfuls. A second message from the Lord recommended orange juice. Finally, said Jackson Whitlow, the Lord prescribed squirrel soup and beef tea, which his doctor approved and supplemented with whey and more orange juice. Said Jackson Whitlow: "The Lord's divine purpose has not been revealed to me yet, but it will be before long. I'm mighty happy it's all over...