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...year had been assured by more strangulating, if less direct, German inroads. Farms had been wrecked after their owners fled before the advancing Germans last summer. Cattle were scattered or killed and eaten by the troops, milk-swollen cows ruined by neglect. Disrupted electric systems had stopped refrigeration, allowing precious foodstuffs to spoil in the hot summer months. Grain needed for spring sowing is expensive and hard to find...
...wish to back them up. This country has no desire to send its sailors and pilots to the Malay peninsula. What our policy must be is material aid and as much of it as possible. We must send planes and ships so that the British can maintain their precious line of supply. We must serve as an arsenal for the forces of democracy in the Far East as well as in Europe, but we must draw the line...
...make one's life livable no matter how black the times, such as cigarettes, an occasional movie, a luscious chocolate milk with ice cream in any House but Adams, a bedtime story over the Crimson Network by A Member of the History Department. Among these harmless and ever-so-precious diversion might also be numbered leafing through the latest issue of Esquire, with its luxurious layout, its smooth ads and smoother women-especially since the Petty girl has returned. But simultaneously with the return of this lovely creature came a decree by the Boston police banning it from newsstands...
...They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships carrying only precious cargo...
UNCLE AM is now sitting on top of the highest pile of gold the world has ever seen --nearly 21 billion dollars worth of the precious metal, nearly three-quarters of all the gold in the world. And by the 1933 Gold Prohibition Law (as Mr. Scherman terms the anti-hoarding act of the banking crisis days) no one else in the United States but the Treasury, not even the Federal Reserve Banks, can hold any gold at all. Further, the President by executive decree can fix the weight of the gold in a dollar pretty much as he pleases...