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...Saints. "The first village we came to, St. Laurent, was like the curate's egg-good in spots. There were pleasant little stone houses with courtyards where birds hang in the trees, black and white hens guiding their chicks about and one belated hen setting on a manure pile hatching her brood. With American efficiency we had already supplied these householders with French tricolors to fly and with wall placards reading 'Private Property-Off Limits to Troops...
Life in X-House. In Britain today Spaatz's private life consists mainly of the four to eight hours he sleeps nightly in the spacious, big-windowed bedroom of "X-House," a comfortable, 19th-Century brick pile in a London suburb. There, as he did in Africa, he leads a kind of corporate, family existence, with his staff as family, and himself as patriarch, straw boss and referee...
...Zarubins will occupy 20 of the 32 rooms in the Embassy building, which was once the mansion of Ottawa's lumber and railroad heir, the late John Frederick Booth (father-in-law to Erik, Prince of Denmark). The U.S.S.R. bought the vast pile when Ottawa and Moscow re-established relations two years ago. To the huge reception rooms, socialite Ottawans flock for the capital's poshest receptions...
...other expendable items, a great deal will still be whole and usable after the war is over-tanks, jeeps, guns, trucks, tools, vast bakeries and all the other heavy equipment needed by armies to fight and live. No one can predict how much will be destroyed, but the leftover pile is sure to be tremendous...
...effect, the Court had two majorities, one giving any state in which an airline is incorporated the right to tax its personal property 100%, the other giving all other states in which it operates the right to pile their own taxes on top. The result, wrote Chief Justice Stone gloomily, may be to tax airlines "far in excess of their value" and impose such a tax burden that "few interstate carriers . . . could survive...