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...their collective opinions it would have added up: 1) a food crisis is rapidly approaching; 2) if nothing effective is done, the crisis will mount steadily to a peak next spring; 3) currently nothing effective is being done about it. The housewife thought it was shameful-and it was. Sober-sided Paul Willis, head of the Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc., said, without exaggeration: "A scandal far greater than the rubber situation looms in the near future. Unless immediate steps are taken to coordinate this country's system of food production and distribution, a major food shortage...
...Sober satisfaction is what most citizens felt with their Congress-which seemed to have been spiritually reborn. None were more pleased than most of the adventuresome 2,500,000 youngsters now eligible for Armageddon. Many (one estimate: 400,000) already were in the armed forces. Many more this week were storming recruiting centers to enlist, inspired more by knowing this is a young man's war than fearing the draft...
...candidate who did not know what to do was New Jersey's Hague-owned Senator William H. Smathers. Hearing of the sober, dead-serious campaign waged by Republican Albert W. Hawkes (industrialist and onetime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), he hurried home, only to find Hawkes effectively belaboring him for previous absences from the Senate when important measures were at stake (Selective Service Act and its extension, declaration of war against Germany). Bill Smathers hightailed it back to Washington, then nervously returned to New Jersey for another look...
These were some of the chief hot spots. There were many others, especially in Congressional races. One forecast predicted Republican victories in seven out of ten Congressional contests outside the Solid South. This would give Republicans control of the House. Sober Democratic estimates agreed on a Republican gain of 20 to 25 in the House; many Republicans felt that would be enough. They did not want control of the House now, with a Democratic President and Senate. But anything might happen...
...road to Ellis paved with good intentions," gurgled the Sage of the Age as he downed the Antaya bottle of Brewster get tight, his spirits growing Dampier and Dampier. "Cummings," he yelled at the door. "You may get a Hanover too. Diaz mean to Sayres that Lewis still sober...