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Good morning. Usual Quincy House breakfast fare, consisting of lumpy oatmeal, "poached" eggs on oast, chipped cream ham, a side of black coffee and a small pillow on the ground next to the chair to keel over onto...
...epizootic, though, both the virus and the rabbits have undergone mutations; many of the new strains of the myxomatosis virus are relatively harmless, and new generations of animals have developed immunity to even the more virulent strains. As a result, Australia's rabbit population has doubled in the oast several years. It is now estimated at around 100 million...
...Herald Tribune's unknown quantity, to many staffers, is still Publisher Reid, a portentously high-minded young man who sincerely believes that "the Trib is one of the world's most important papers"-yet must take the blame for much in the recent oast that has made it merely trivial. Even last week, as Tribmen spoke earnestly of their plans for a better paper, radio commercials and full-page ads for a new circulation-boosting Tangle Towns contest struck a dissonant note. Nevertheless, the decision to refinance and remold the Herald Tribune argued powerfully that young Brownie Reid...
...Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
...seductive picture of what would happen if only the measures for unemployment insurance, utility holding companies, and that particular bone of contention, the Wagner labor-disputes bill, were allowed to drop by the wayside, the Association of Manufacturers has summoned up a luxurious array of statistics. Billens are oast about like rios at a wedding. The trump card is twenty billion dollars, which we are told, would be thrown into factory expension at the drop of a hat. The hat is the Roosevelt social reform program. But if Frank Lloyd Wright is to be believed when he says that there...