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Dreams in Issari were made of flour. Small Greek boys dreamed of bread loaves piled high on the bare kitchen table. News had come from Peiraeus that a cargo from the U.S. had arrived on a Swedish ship. During the day the people who slumped exhausted in the square whispered of the day the food might reach Issari. There was speculation and argument: This or that might delay the food; what if this or that road were used? perhaps it would not come...
...three weeks all-important theories about the flour were discussed and examined from every angle. Then the crier, walking slowly on bare feet, shouted in a loud, thin voice: "Tomorrow. At the Church of Saint Nicholas." Those who were about to die tried to live another...
Families on relief can buy a dollar's worth of orange stamps, good for any food, get free a 50% dividend in blue stamps good only for "surplus" foods. This month the foods on the free list include pancake and whole wheat flour, corn meal and hominy grits, dry beans, potatoes, fresh vegetables, apples-all plentiful but hardly surplus. Also included: eggs-obviously not a surplus commodity to customers who pay 60? to 80? a dozen for them in big cities...
...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...
...deny that modern youth is better informed, more serious and responsible, than ever before? And who can deny that our political judgment must, at the minimum, excel that of many voters of today--citizens who support Hamilton Fish by a three-to-one plurality, citizens who elect singing flour-salesmen to the Senate, citizen-suckers for vaudeville shows at political functions, citizen-cowards returning corrupt political machines year in and year out? Sturtevant Hobbs...