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...Italy the brisk action of recent weeks simmered down. The high command told the story of one 24-hour period in 15 words: "Fifth and Eighth Army patrols continued to probe enemy positions and several sharp clashes resulted." And in these little actions death came to a few young...
Life was all any young unmarried woman could ask for. Occasionally she visited her sisters and delighted her nieces with her brisk wit. They always looked forward to being with "Aunt Milly." Wellesley students called her "Milly Mac," but not to her face...
Black Markets. Inevitably, trade was brisk in the black markets, where the only challenge to prices was the law of supply & demand. OPA announced the seizure of 50 million red ration coupons (enough points to buy a total week's supply of beef for U.S. civilians), worth an estimated $2.5 million to the counterfeiters. This rich haul surprised no one in OPA or the meat industry. The only secret about the vast nationwide black market in meat is the exact number of millions of animals diverted to this trade each year...
...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...
Roughly Speaking (Warners) should not disappoint admirers of Louise Randall Pierson's brisk, brash autobiography of a rampant housewife (TIME, June 28, 1943), and will probably amuse plenty of others. Dashing through some 40 years, it does comically for the U.S. middle class much of what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn does more seriously for the not-quite-working class...