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...neighbors' cows have broken down the stone walls to eat up all our apples, our own calf broke loose and chewed up dozens of precious trailing arbutus plants, and a strange horse, whose owner we've not yet found, trampled through the nursery flower beds and ate up half of our vegetable garden...
...painted merry-go-round horse galloped loose, jumped a fence into a fair ground. In Portland, Ore., a brainy greyhound at a dog track figured things out, took a short cut across the center, caught the mechanical bunny coming head on, won retirement. In Brantford, Ont, the local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find a sea gull perched there, waiting...
...north of the Yard are the towering Memorial Hall, where Harvard men once ate; now register and take exams; and the New Lecture Hall, now no longer...
Safe out of Burma, Belden hopped right back into danger with only a week's rest-rejoining General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tigers at the chief A.V.G. air base in China. He stayed on there with U.S. Army pilots when the A.V.G. was disbanded -ate with them, slept with them, flew with them while they strafed Jap ground troops all over eastern China-dodged Japanese ack-ack, dog-fought I-97s and Zeros, bombed ships, docks and factories up and down the Yangtze...
Based on 1941 figures, when the low-income classes probably ate the best food in their lives, people with incomes under $500 ate less than one and a half pounds of meat each week-and mostly cheap pork cuts at that. Those with incomes under $2,000 ate about two and a quarter pounds. For more than 50% of U.S. citizens the meat-rationing scheme means eating more meat than ever before...