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...seen - to supply the nation's food. It is a stimulating thought. It strikes the imagination." A slice of bread wasted each day by each Briton, he then explained, equals 30 shiploads of wheat in a year. A teaspoonful of tea for each person "and none for the pot" would save 60 shiploads...
...State Thomas Jefferson was also keeper of records. His staff was a part-time clerk. An inventor himself (a mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that came in. First patent went to one Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for "making pot and pearl ashes." In those days a patent cost about $4. (Now it is $60 plus legal fees.) John Fitch paid $4.39 for his steamboat patent. The part-time clerk pocketed the fees...
...father had always talked to him about the melting pot of golden opportunity that was America. But his father was a buoyant optimist of the 1890's and early 1900's, while Vag was inclined to think of himself as a hard-boiled post-war cynic. His was a practical America, a country of depressions and recessions and bonus armies, not a haven with free land for all and riches for the picking. But occasionally Vag's cynicism was subjected to disquieting qualms. He was particularly haunted by visions of a vitriolic figure with an extremely photogenic face who hopped...
Sergeant Holsen and another policeman were riding patrol one day when they sighted a troop of baboons. The men took a few pot shots with their revolvers and the apes fled. One, scuttling on all fours like the rest, lagged behind. Captured, he proved to be a black native boy, 12 to 14 years old. Like a baboon, he chattered, jerked and nodded his head, scratched his body with his forefinger. He had a nervous, baboon-like grin. His quadrupedal gait had caused an abnormal overdevelopment of his haunches...
Each year, with the enthusiasm of a commuter with a set of new garden tools, the radio business plants a batch of new shows. Last year's planting was unusually successful, producing such flourishing specimens as Alec Templeton Time, Pot o' Gold, Mr. District Attorney. This season, U. S. radio spaded early. Last week five new sprouts appeared, and one recently transplanted radio perennial struggled for survival...