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...Fish, vegetables, rice-the staples of Japanese diet-were crucially scarce. The rice shortage was beginning to affect the supply of sake (rice wine). Enough rice had been plundered from North China, already hard up because of severe floods, so that in Tientsin the price of a sack of rice-two months' supply for one person-had gone up from $12 (Chinese) to $100. Food riots broke out in Tientsin and Peking. In Tokyo, according to the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, so many Japanese were eating the bean curd waste usually fed to cattle that cows were giving only...
...clinched. With Slot Machineman Mills, Movieman Roosevelt launched the Mills-Globe Co.; Mills to provide a reported $3,000,000 of financing, Roosevelt to provide one two-and-a-half to three-minute talkie every week. Carefully Producer Roosevelt explained that his slot-machine interests in no way affect his Globe Production's agreement with United Artists...
...something made and then cast away. It was an indelible part of the man that wrote it, and whenever it was played or wherever it was played, the composer lived again at a thousand different places. It was alive and vital, for Vag was sure that nothing inanimate could affect him so deeply. And more than any other form of expression, more than literature or art, music was timeless and everlasting...
Pessimistic was Diplomat Kennedy: ". . . Continuation of the war will be catastrophic for the political, social and economic life of the peoples of the world." Prophetic was Politician Kennedy: "The problems that are going to affect the people of the United States ... are already so great and becoming greater by the war that they should be handled by a man it won't take two years to educate...
...England, and dwell upon the good fellowship which blesses Anglo-American relations. If he is adroit at the art--and obviously he is adroit, or Britain would never have let such a valuable man go in time of war -- American radio executives should learn much which will profoundly affect their later treatment of war news...