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They simply have to find out what happened to One Man's Family. At ten o'clock, they look at the clock and go right on where they left off. Finally they go. You are tired. Your spouse isn't. She feels like talking ... about that new fur coat she needs, most likely. You listen, as usual. At last you are in bed, covers up around your neck, and you are dozing off into a much needed sleep ... The baby cries...
...Dallas, for example, the five largest shops reported fur sales 149% above last year's, and the average retail sale in all stores was $10 v. $2 in 1942. In shipbuilding San Francisco, where application blanks for clerks went into monthly bills, the report from all retailers was: "price means nothing." San Francisco also reported an unusual number of gift certificates bought by shoppers who gave up trying to find the perfect present. For once, it was easier to shop in bargain basements than in the snootier departments upstairs...
...Tough. Yet the enemy is better equipped than in the preceding two winters of disaster. Berlin has even claimed bravely: "German soldiers have conquered fear of cold and snow." But in Germany, the press pleaded with the butchers and farmers to save every single rabbit fur, to be sent to the Eastern Front for coats...
Money, Lauterbach found, is plentiful, but there are few opportunities to spend it. "Clothes are old but warm, and I was surprised at the frequency of fur hats, collars, even coats seen on the streets. These are needed, as wood and fuel are still not abundant. Food lines are not so long as I remembered but waiting for trams is the same. The well-stocked bookstores are as numerous in Moscow as drugstores in Los Angeles. Newspapers and magazines are still difficult to obtain...
Said Judge Learned Hand's majority opinion (Judge Augustus Hand - a cousin -concurring): "We conclude that the present bylaws of A.P. unlawfully restrict the admission of members; and that fur ther enforcement of them should be en joined." Judge Thomas Swan dissented...