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Rationing will be slapped on many a new civilian product, will be lifted only when it is plentiful. Example: autos will be rationed until they are coming off the lines at a 100,000 a month clip...
...night, when he is not going out, he and his wife go through nine newspapers (two New York, two Detroit, two Grand Rapids, three Washington), clip out all the stories about Senator Vandenberg, paste them in scrapbooks. When the books are completed, they are bound in green, shipped to Grand Rapids for deposit in a safe in the Vandenberg home. He intends to use them in writing his memoirs...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...
...jammed for hours past midnight by drunks who had downed too many too fast, by soberer folks who thought they had no place else to go. Speakeasies began to spring up, and Manhattan's policemen began to talk worriedly of the return of the Prohibition era's clip-joints...
...from the third floor of a ruined Manila building, decided to ration their occasional targets. The riflemen lined up by rank, and each man had three shots. If a gunner missed, he lost his next turn. Then an impatient sergeant, losing all restraint, fired an entire Browning automatic rifle clip of 20 shots at one Jap. His outraged mates passed sentence: no shooting at all for three days...