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...plenty of the blame rests squarely on U.S. meat buyers. With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
Point at issue was an anguished complaint from the Army and Navy that the building of synthetic rubber factories was eating up too many critical component parts also needed in the construction of Navy escort vessels and the manufacture of high-octane gas. They demanded a cut in the rubber program down to 55% of the 1943 goal. Said one War Department official: "If the . . . program is not held at a true 55%, we will be marvelously equipped to fight a war in the Mississippi Valley...
Against best-selling Current Historian Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), the Duke of Hamilton filed suit for $100,000 libel. Complaint of the Duke, on whose Scottish estate Rudolf Hess alighted in the spring of 1941, was that Van Paassen hinted the duke had expected his guest, had been "colluding with the enemies of his country...
...first-night audience, which included Eleanor Roosevelt, the Maxim Litvinoffs, the Harry Hopkinses, was enthusiastic if occasionally irreverent : when Actress Cornell tossed herself too quiveringly into her lover's arms, the house roared with laughter. Afterwards the bigwigs trooped backstage. Amid his congratulations, Harry Hopkins voiced a complaint: "No man would say good-by to the woman he loves wearing heavy leather gauntlets...
...fever sufferers, most skeptical of patients, were last fortnight again offered a new hope. In Science Chemists Harry N. Holmes and Wyvona Alexander, of Oberlin College, recommended vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for relieving the complaint...