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...than in the same week last year and 64,000 more than two years ago. At West Fargo, N.D., the Armour packing plant had to suspend buying for three days to catch up with the run. At Chicago, the War Meat Board urged farmers to hold off shipments to avoid a panic market...
...daylight a young reconnaissance pilot, roaring overhead to make photographs in his P-38 Lightning, beheld a vast, fascinating panoply of war spread out beneath him. Allied warships* were cruising in toward shore, turning loose murderous salvos at the enemy coast, then swerving out to avoid coastal defense batteries. The ships had kindled a chain of smoke and flame extending ten miles inland...
...Mexicans and Negroes and all the rest of the zoot-suit fraternity want to avoid trouble, there is a very simple way. Just get out of a zoot suit and into a uniform or a pair of overalls...
...been relatively simple to avoid so far. While Germany was on the offensive, war was always a simple issue: fight or go down in the "New Order." But with Allied armies standing at the gate to Turkey's bridge, the issue has changed. The Allies hold something in their hands that Germany never had: the prospect of complete and final victory in Europe and reconstruction of the Continent's political structure. That might mean the consolidation of everything the Turks with Kamâl Atatürk had fought for: a strong position in the Balkans...
...avoid any repetition, future batches will contain the usual amount of sugar, war or no war. A few spoonfuls of each batch will be tried on animals. To make sure that no customer gets any of the old, bad batches, the new Castoria package will be distinguished by a green band...