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...long stay in yon hospital and we all's glad to see yo back in there readin', writin', and fightin'. Ben Graves is back, too, after a tussle with "a foreign body, non-traumatic," which, translated, means the removal of a metal, shoulder plate inserted when he busted a bone some time...
...conservationists' remedy for the surpluses is as plain as the nose on a moose's face: let the Government release a modest amount of ammunition to hunters (dealers' shelves are now bone-bare). They point out that such hunting is not only necessary to maintain wildlife population at an optimum level, but also taps a potential food supply of more than one-quarter billion pounds of meat-plus feathers...
...Everywhere one turned there were piles of bodies; here one with a backbone visible from the front, and the rest of the flesh and bone peeled up over the man's head, like the leaf of an artichoke; there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs; pink, blue, yellow entrails drooping; a man with a red bullet hole through his eye; a dead Jap private, wearing dark, tortoise-shell glasses, his buck teeth bared in a humorless grin, lying on his back with his chest a mess of ground meat. There is no horror to these...
...since Jeanette Rankin did her one-woman stand in the House on that day, a little cabal of Congressmen and Senators has been sharpening its collective fangs in anticipation of the next wartime budget. They swore to high heaven that the "boondoggling peacetime agencies" would be slashed to the bone when the new estimates came up for approval, and chortled with glee when they thought of how a perfectly just demand for economy could be used to asphyxiate the New Deal and all its works...
...billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself, frightened silly by the farm bloc, passed legislation raising the parity payments...