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...reply to an investigation of a complaint that Fiske's charged 15 cents extra for pie-a-la-mode, Mrs. Fiske said that she had to pay $4.00 more a jug for cream, raising her bulk price of ice cream to $1.00 a quart...
Moppets at Work. Department stores and merchandising chains pledged no price lifts on present stocks. Organized buyers' strikes threatened in several cities, but failed to develop. But an unorganized one did, in miniature. In Phoenix, Ariz. tricycling vendors boosted their price of ice cream sticks by a penny. Result: moppets refused to buy. By the third day the price was back to a nickel...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...
...swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...
...filled balloons soared overhead and vendors shouted an encouraging "Ice cream bars--Still OPA ceiling," as thousands of Cantabrigians lined Massachusetts Ave, and Garden St. to cheer the marching columns. Highlight of the parade was the appearance of the U.S. Army band. The rest of the procession consisted of military and naval units, veterans organizations, floats, ponderous with symbolism, petite and hippy drum majorettes, and sweating, gaily-uniformed bands...