Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's department stores got ready for V-day; many sent directives to their personnel on how to behave. Most called for closing the store, removing merchandise from show windows, boarding up the windows. Employes of Milwaukee's famed Boston Store got the curtest note: "Finish waiting on your customer; then get out and celebrate...
Nazi soldiers, reports Ehrenburg, meticulously note down the number of children they have shot, the prisoners they have tortured. Side by side with obscene French pictures they carry sentimental photographs of their wives and children. They are "libertines, Sodomites, perverts" who think nothing of wearing the bloodstained underwear of the juvenile victims they have raped. German women represent the "greedy, drooling snout of a German hyena." Ehrenburg, the Soviet's most widely read writer, believes that Russians have been vastly hardened and strengthened by their conflict with the invaders, but he doubts that the Germans can ever be educated...
Next day a Negro war worker, whose brother is in the Army, walked into Philadelphia's famed Independence Hall and hurled a one-pound paper weight at the Liberty Bell. As the deep note resounded he yelled: "Liberty Bell, oh Liberty Bell -liberty, that's a lot of bunk!" Police led him off to a hospital to have his head examined...
...London's Tribune was moved to a Wellsian note by a rumor that a German super-rocket bomb, launched two weeks ago, had not yet been heard from. Said the Tribune, in interplanetary vein: "If that world [hit by the runaway rocket] happens to be inhabited by people who have reached our own level of 'civilization,' they may regard it as an act of hostility. . . .Are we on the eve of war between worlds before we have got ourselves tidied up on earth...
...Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts. In 1939, the Big Four had 49% of the U.S. whiskey supply in their warehouses; today they have 70%. They got this enormous increase by adding some 127,066,629 proof gallons to their stocks through the purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price for their businesses.) The subcommittee also cited, as evidence of a trend to monopoly, the Big Four-owned distilleries in Cuba and Puerto Rico...