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...precious feed grain, more than 60% above last year's shipments...
There was scarcely a war book which did not have, like bits of precious metal buried in piles of scrap iron, its passages of eloquence and emotion. There was not one which, spanning the fronts in all their global immensity, and the millions of individual tragedies, encompassed the war in a single definitive work. Piecing the accounts together, editing out irrelevancies, readers could compose their own history of their own time from the almost limitless supply of fair-to-good material for speculation and inquiry...
...54th day a ray-detecting electrometer struck pay dirt. The city engineer built a tricky special scraper, probed, scratched, and out of a heap of sewer muck hauled the three precious tubes...
...began in 1937. A year ago it was 80 times the prewar level, which gives economists hope: the rate of doubling and redoubling seems to be slowing down. Before the great Allied victories, prices were doubling every eight months. But China's transport planes still devote precious tons to the hauling of bank notes, and President Chiang Kaishek's Government still hesitates to apply full force to arresting the tide...
...detachment-yawns, looks bored, calls women by their first names, mispronounces their last names, scoffs at their provincialism (most of them are from small towns). They seem to like it. Women who cannot be present write him 1,000 to 1,500 letters a day. Some begin: "Tom, my precious...