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Snipers and machine gunners have plenty of ammunition and food. They are warmly dressed for the damp, chilling weather -their caps with ear muffs are filled with kapok, their gloves, boots and heavy coats are lined with white rabbit fur...
...trying to hold all prices in line, the Administration ran the danger of successfully stabilizing inessential luxuries such as fur coats while failing to stabilize critical (and scarce) cost-of-living items. This is just what has happened. Since March 1942, general wholesale prices have advanced only 5%, as compared with a 14% advance in weekly factory earnings. But food prices went up by at least 16% (some food items doubled), which pushed the cost of living up 7%. This advance in food prices-the biggest single item in living costs-gave labor its most powerful arguments for breaking through...
Paul Revere Rides Again. When Warner Bros, decided last year to make a movie of Davies' book, Jack Warner cried ecstatically: "By gosh, we'll put Russia on the map." Mission to Moscow, a $2,000,000 picture, is gilded with Hollywood touches. Its Russians look like fur-coated Americans, and the Soviet Union is pictured as a land of magnificent food and drink, as it probably was in the circles in which the Davieses moved. As Mrs. Davies, the picture has sweet-faced Ann Harding, and as Hero Joe Davies, tall, forceful Actor Walter Huston...
...seldom gets extremely cold in the Aleutians-temperatures below zero are rare-but it never gets warm. The williwaws* chill the bleak islands. The men on the islands wear bulky, waterproof clothes, fur-lined caps or knitted "phantom hats" which can be lowered over the face. Coveralls and boots are standard outer wear for ground crews...
...protect Army & Navy fur-lined flying suits from moths, Westinghouse has installed refrigeration equipment in storerooms at airports. The moths are killed by a shock cycle which plunges temperatures to -17°F., then warms up to 50°F. Surviving eggs are hatched by heat, the larvae destroyed by a second below-zero treatment...