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...production in March was 27% greater than a year ago. There were hints that point values for lamb and mutton, butter, pork products, and some beef cuts would be reduced on May 1 Manhattan's bustling fish market was swamped one day by the arrival of 1.5 million Ib. of fish (normal daily average: 650,000 Ib.). Warehouses and cold-storage plants from coast to coast were bursting with food. People were warned that it would spoil unless they ate more...
Born. To Master Sergeant Ezra Stone, 26, radio's brash Henry Aldrich, and Sara Seegar Stone, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Josef Seegar...
...Wednesday, Mrs. Eleanor Zarief had quadruplets, three girls and a boy. Weights: 5 lb., 5 lb., 4 Ib. 12 oz., 4 Ib. 13 oz. All doing well...
...normally U.S. pepper stocks were never larger than a three-month supply. But the shrewd Manhattan pepper importers, foreseeing that a war with Japan would shut off imports, and taking advantage of low pepper prices, bought and bought, before Pearl Harbor. By December 1941 they had 60,000,000 Ib. in storage...
...last three years black pepper has become scarcer and scarcer; many housewives have difficulty in getting any pepper. The Government acted to force the pepper dealers to release their stocks. The dealers balked: the OPA ceiling price is 6½ a Ib., which they claimed would by no means repay them for the high costs of their foresight-insurance, interest, storage charges in warehouses. To make a small profit they need a ceiling price of at least 10? a Ib. (In London the ceiling price is about 20? per Ib...