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...Arithmetic books offered this typical problem: "In order to live Mussolini once had to work as a stone mason. He describes it in his diary. He worked eleven hours per day, received 32 centesimi per hour, made 121 trips per day with his wheelbarrow full of stones. How many lire did he make per day, per week? How many trips with his wheelbarrow did he make per month...
...four-room frame house overflowed with packages; they came from Miami, from Seattle, from all over: a xylophone, a miniature church with chimes, a blue music box, a toy army camp. The halls were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at Lowry Field, Colo., a wheelbarrow, a tommygun, a family of walking ducks. There was a black cocker spaniel from one of Father Hoffman's fellow workers at the Union Pacific Railroad, and a tree-size fir branch from the Cheyenne Park Department...
...acre. But by 1941 prices went up; the demand for Wenatchee's luxury apples was brisk. That fall, when Shipper Reuben Benz wangled a freight reduction, the growers were riding so high that they gave him 3,100 silver dollars, trundled into a banquet room in a wheelbarrow...
Lift Your Heads (British Ministry of Information; OWI). Because a champion German-Jewish boxer picked up a small bird and put it in his wheelbarrow in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, his hands were tied behind his back and he was then strung up by the hands from a tree. The story of his torture, told haltingly by the boxer himself, plus shots of exactly how the Nazis went about it, are memorable moments in this short, sober British documentary. It shows how the British are helping Austrian and German antiFascists get back at Hitler...