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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1939
Page
2
President Roosevelt faces political backlash over Navy purchases of Argentine canned beef. Supporters view it as a misstep. Republicans and Old Guard Democrats may weaponize the affair, risking prestige comparable to past court-packing debates.
The navy opened bids for 48,000 pounds of canned corned beef with Argentina Cooperatives offering about 16 cents per pound, far below the U.S. bid of about 23 cents and six cents per pound tariff. President Roosevelt faced criticism after publicly praising Argentine beef, spurring a House-Senate clash and eventual prohibition to avoid such purchases again.
A biography of James Shields recounts his perilous youth in Tyrone Ireland his survival of shipwrecks off Scotland and the Carolina coast his service in the Seminole War his rise in Illinois politics and law his Mexican War wounding at Cerro Gordo his Senate service in Illinois Minnesota and Missouri his Civil War brigadier general rank and final death in 1879 noting he remains the only American to serve as U S senator from three different states.
A steamship ticket from 1858 on display at the Maritime Museum of Gothenburg describes weekly rations for each passenger including bread pork flour and herring plus a daily water can. Passengers must supply butter sugar mustard syrup pepper and vinegar and bring their own bedding and tin dining gear. The master may withhold water if the promenade deck is not cleaned daily by passengers.
A young volunteer who sketched British positions near Boston rises to colonel and aide to General Gates, fights with Sullivan in Rhode Island, then studies in London under Benjamin West. He later faces imprisonment as reprisal for Washington ties but is saved by West and Copley, later painting iconic works.
The piece notes swindlers and business racketeers drain an estimated half a billion dollars yearly from American households. It observes men resist fraud less than women and that the elderly suffer more often, while the young face trick contracts and fraudulent merchandise.
Answers: 1 an alliteration uses repeating initial sounds. 2 Claustrophobia is fear of confined spaces. 3 Some actions cannot be undone. 4 The largest number used is not defined in common language. 5 The Bible flood date is not specified in a single date. 6 Brass is not mined as an element. it is an alloy of copper and zinc.
The text lists multiple items including alliteration and confined spaces, then puzzles such as unscrambling an egg, explains a vigintillion, cites a deluge date in 2346 B C, and notes brass as an alloy of copper and zinc with mining mentions.
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