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...happy. I am a private in the Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect these people who throw thousands of dollars away to show off their kids. . . . Maybe some day I'll have a fur coat and a swell watch, nice home and family-but damn I'll work like hell and raise my family with more sense and value of love and security than any of those 400 class kids will ever have...
Good Hunting. The 1945 seal catch off Alaska's desolate Pribilof Islands was the largest (76,700 skins) since conservation of the decimated seal herd was started in 1911. An estimated 10,000 fur coats can be made from this year's $4 million catch...
...there was a noticeable drop in the sales of fur coats and jewelry. Merchants thought this was due more to the rumor that the 20% luxury tax will soon be removed than to a conservative trend in buying. Exception: in Denver, fur coats priced up to $6,000 each were selling like hotcakes...
Abstention on Expansion. Fur flew on a proposal to admit Australia, Brazil and Yugoslavia to the Council's Central Committee. The Russians objected, apparently because no instructions had been received from Moscow, even to inclusion of friendly Yugoslavia. After the motion was defeated, Russia requested that her negative vote be converted to an abstention...
...into their wounds, insisting they use the word as their planes' radio call. During the halfway halt at Ie Shima, one of the Jap crewmen appeared with a bouquet for "peace and friendship." Not an arm was bent in salute. Gaping G.I.s showed more interest in the booted, fur-hatted Jap pilots than in the stubby little men walking over to the Army Transport Command plane (a C-54 Skymaster) assigned to carry them to Manila...