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French industrialists were instructed to replace deported workers with unskilled recruits. After a period of training this raw labor would be ready to take its turn in the Reich. Continuous labor exchange would tend to standardize industrial technique in the two countries...
Author Maugham based his unfriendly fable about genius in the raw on the life of unfriendly Painter Paul Gauguin. Like Gauguin, Genius Charles Strickland (George Sanders) reaches his prime as an overdomesticated stockbroker. Like Gauguin, he abruptly quits all that for Paris, semistarvation and oil painting. He takes over the studio and the wife (Doris Dudley) of a piteous fellow painter (Steve Geray). Later he leaves the wife to suicide, and heads for Tahiti where he marries a sleek young native with a Mona Grable smile (Elena Verdugo), slaps out masterpieces by the gross, dies (lingeringly) of leprosy...
...Raw Rum. Baranov made money for his company from the start. Hundreds of canoes, manned by Aleutian islanders, scoured the shores for sea otter, seals and foxes. At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth...
...meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade, and if you do not drink raw rum and boiling punch as strong as sulfur he will insult...
...thus diluted by its worst. Laval did his best to oblige. He yelled for more workers. He sent foreign and French Jews by the thousands to Nazi labor camps in Poland and Silesia. He ordered 1,600 factories in Unoccupied France shut down. He warned France that lack of raw materials would soon increase the number. He told tens of thousands of unemployed Frenchmen to "volunteer" for work at "high" wages in German factories to produce "for victory over Bolshevism...