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Such was the straight-faced advice sent out last week by the Department of Agri culture. The department listed wild plants which can be put to a "useful purpose": lamb's-quarters, plantain, poke, purslane, wild chicory, dock. They all taste good with vinegar or cooked in bacon fat, said the department; they contain vitamins A and B, and iron...
...soldier outfit in Hawaii that suffers from too much red tape and not enough women. The cast contains 30 soldiers (six of them former actors) three paid actresses and seven local girls or wahine. The musical gets going with the outfit landing in Honolulu and gaily met at the dock by hula girls. From the wings comes a soldier bearing a sign: "Any similarity between this scene and our actual landing is purely accidental...
Meanwhile, at Escanaba, Mich., ore piled up from rail deliveries across the tip of Wisconsin. Freighter captains cursed. Fifteen ore boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...
...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
Britons last week got an idea of the reception that the Beveridge Plan for social reform may soon meet in Parliament. Up in the House of Commons was a Catering Bill introduced by hornyhanded Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. A restaurant worker before he became a dock worker, Bevin asked for a commission to investigate the catering business from top to bottom, then recommend any necessary reforms...