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...crime addicts, much of the grue went out of the case when a State chemist reported that the vault stains had not been made by blood, that the bones were from roast beef and had probably been dragged under the veranda...
While all this was going on, the price of cotton climbed from 8? to 11.7? a lb.; wheat from 59? to 90?; corn from 39? to 85?; hogs 4? to 7.8?; beef cattle 4? to 5?-national farm income from the neighborhood of $4,000,000,000 to more than $6,000,000,000. Not even AAA claims responsibility for all these gains. Drought and dollar devaluation worked in the same direction...
White Bread 3¾... Beef, boiled...
...family by the plantation owner. Houses are worse than poultry houses on well-kept farms. A family showed me relief which it was told must last for 30 days- there were seven in that family. Its stores consisted of 8 cans of evaporated milk, 5 cans of processed beef, one 24-lb. bag of flour, one 24-lb. bag of meal and a paper package of nondescript meat, weighing perhaps two or three pounds. This family-white, by the way-had just been dumped down by the side of a country highway, because a father had dared unsuccessfully to invoke...
...When I am particularly angry with an ex-cannibal or his children, I call them such. It is worse than a slap in the face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white men at all, as they are afraid of a new diet. Cannibals usually are weaklings. There will be no cannibalism among the Solomon Islands in ten years, when civilization contacts the back country...