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...Lashio that clear night there were 2,000 U. S.-built trucks, into which 5,000 coolies of many tribes lifted cargoes of many sorts-wings of airplanes, lock nuts for lathes, rolls of adhesive plaster, flashlights, tins of high-octane gasoline, rifle barrels, barrels of kerosene, raw cotton: materials of war and of war economy. The loading dumps covered acres. Some $20,000,000 worth of China's future lay there...
Conditions in London's upper-and middle-class shelter districts were not so grim as Writer Calder described. But raw weather and lack of fuel last week ended the "sleep trains" which used to take those Londoners who could afford them into safe, quiet countrysides. As for London's slum areas - where hunting cats prowled hills of rubble by day and humans crouched by night under railway and sewer arches-Writer Calder's war lilies were anything but gilded...
...losses for the week were being replaced by the purchase of 19 U. S. freighters, each of 10,000 tons or less. Boasted First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander: "The stream of new ships is now coming steadily in from the yards. . . . Great convoys of food, raw materials, arms and men . . . sailed and arrived with clockwork regularity. . . . We cannot be beaten...
...Commercial and Cultural Regulations with Latin America, the National Defense Council's agent for nudging U. S. commerce toward a hemisphere basis. Cottonmen were relieved that if defense must monkey with their crop, it would be done Will Clayton's way. 2) If U. S. exports of raw cotton to Japan were cut off, presumably so would be Japan's exports of cotton goods to Latin America, which were a substantial 113,152,000 square yards ($7,771,000) last year. Cottonmen could figure that a good part of the raw cotton now exported to Japan might...
...Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down bullfighters, ham prizefighters, gallant trollops, homosexuals, mugs, spiritual victims of the war. "The lost generation" quickly turned his books into bestsellers, tried to talk like Hemingway characters as they sipped raw alcohol in speakeasies, tried to write Hemingway stories in garrets and penthouses. None wrote as well...