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Reaction. In Coffeyville, Kans., a taxpayer walked into the county treasurer's office to find out what he owed. When he was told, he ran away screaming, eventually got rid of a bee that had gotten inside his shirt...
Plain and simple fact is that the whole 1942 wheat crop is as useless as any boondoggle. It is already costing the U.S. Government some $80,000,000 in benefit payments, may soon take $800,000,000 more for price-propping crop loans. But the country could have gotten along all right if not one bushel had been raised...
...never quite gotten over that. Do they still talk about Him?" "Democrats, Christians, fools, they do," said Heydrich. "We don't believe...
...written, in spite of its damned melodrama. The picnic had been a success--a perfect afternoon and evening, and the sunburn on his face had brought back a partly forgotten feeling of well-being as he had lain on the ground gazing up through the trees. When it had gotten dark, the firelight and the singing had flickered through the woods together. The others had sung unconcernedly, as if there were more picnics coming soon. It wasn't the way Vag had expected them to sing on the last of their Concord evenings together...
...remarked, as she got up: "At last I've heard something." Last week all the Maltese heard something they had been waiting long to hear: thunders of noise that meant an even chance of pasting the enemy back after almost two years of being pasted. Malta had gotten important reinforcements...