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...only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
Billy Lovett stopped minding his own business after one of his Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co.'s three freighters (outmoded World War I destroyers which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...
Milk in the afternoon and pretty milkmaids to serve it, "THAT'S THE LIFE." What would these pampered pansies of Paterson's NJ. plant of Wright Aeronautical Corp. (TIME, Aug. 24) do on a diet of cocoa and flies in the afternoon? NO MILK, NO BUTTER, NO POTATOES, NO FLOUR, NO COFFEE is what we have and as for MILKMAIDS-anything white, single and under 60 would cause a riot, not a STRIKE in these parts. Is it for these milk-sipping and milkmaid-ogling PATRIOTS that we are sweating in B.C. to produce their essential "BAUXITE...
...Clinchy, opening his Bible, stood with his back to the marble fireplace, surrounded by the little semicircle of 44 guests. Close by stood Hopkins' ten-year-old daughter, Diana, wistful and pretty in a cocoa-colored crepe dress and a brown straw hat. While Harry Hopkins put a gold-rope wedding ring on his bride's finger, little Diana held her new stepmother's bouquet...
Ersatz Candy. The candymakers (fourth largest U.S. food industry) met in convention last week to moan and groan. Reasons: lost imports from 29 countries; the rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...