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...legally owned by the British and possessed pro tem by the Japanese. But the Chinese could scarcely help regarding Hong Kong as Chinese, whether it was in charge of British or Japs. And the Chinese had taken hope that foreign sovereignty as well as foreign privileges were about to disappear from China...
...love and affection of mothers at home would prevent most of our criminal and delinquency cases. The best available figures show that there were around 4,300,000 criminals in the U.S. last year-of which 72% were under 23 years of age-and that about 150,000 girls disappear each year into an infamous easy life...
...bacteria cannot live in human saliva unless sugar is present; and since sugar does not occur in normal saliva, they must get their nourishment from food taken into the mouth. Says Dr. Hill: "When diets are followed which contain a rigid restriction of sugar, these acid-forming organisms rapidly disappear from the saliva...
...laugh. He knew that ballyhooing Pétain would not win over the French people as long as their country was ground under the Nazi boot. He knew that all France's workers could not sate Hitler's rapacious appetite. If Hitler won, Laval would probably disappear, like Austria's Schuschnigg, in favor of a German Gauleiter. If the Allies won, Laval could expect to be hanged at least, possibly drawn & quartered by Frenchmen...
Although there is an adequate liquor supply for a medium term war (warehouses bulge with enough to last four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...