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...satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
Franklin Roosevelt went immediately to the palatial, showplace home of the late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
...over the U.S., men discarded their coats and women their girdles. Ice-cream cones dripped at the drugstore door. Dogs' tongues hung out; thermometers were scarlet...
...flood of first-half-year earnings that poured out last week still had that rich, clotted-cream look. With U.S. industry at peak production, it was no surprise that profits, in many cases, were higher than last year's first six months. The National City Bank of New York totted up earnings of 350 companies, found that they were up 11%. But the notable fact was that second-quarter earnings this year were but slightly better than first quarter. If the overall picture was still rosier than last year, it was due mainly to one rampaging industry...
...month. He married trim, freckled Carolyne Schaulk, a hired girl on a nearby farm, and started farming on his own. The Walls rented 80 acres north of Panora (pop. 1,169). With their $300 savings they bought a pair of flap-eared mules, a cookstove, a cream separator and a linoleum square. With $300 more borrowed from the Farmers State Bank they bought two brood sows for $20, and an assortment of antique farm equipment (including a harrow picked...