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The Way of Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils.
The Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds...
Now the Army, sick of its bargain, and having at last discovered that its soldiers were better trained at country training camps, wanted to sell the Stevens. This seemed stupidity compounded: where in this land of priorities could anyone possibly buy enough down-cushion sofas, good beds, copper and aluminum...
> A $100,000 stainless steel kitchen, hundreds of copper and aluminum pots & pans, 2,000 Seltzer bottles.
Quantitatively this is no more than shipyards, now approaching their maxima of slightly better than five ships a day, will deliver in 1943. But qualitatively Land's program-if it pans out-will represent a big improvement over this year's record. Half of the 2,000-odd...