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...injured, by official German counts. On succeeding nights more British bombs fell, more Berliners died, as 100-lb. demolition charges tore down through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again in the southeastern quarters where lie huge Tempelhof Airport and some of Berlin's main food, fuel, raw-material supply lines. As in London, subway service was disrupted. Berlin learned about sleepless nights and haggard mornings-after-and the High Command had some tall explaining...
Then suddenly everybody knew about "poor Porkey." Sportswriters from coast to coast sobbed about the "poor but honest boy" who had been given a raw deal by golf's "stuffed shirts." Every community wanted to see Porky. The Professional Golfers Association had a hard time book ing a tournament unless Oliver was entered...
Belgian economy was also being adapted to Nazi needs. Coal mines and metallurgical plants worked overtime to supply Germany's war machine, but because of a raw-material shortage, other industries in general employed only 20% of their staffs. Chief problems were 1,000,000 refugees to be brought home, and over 1,000,000 unemployed. Thousands without jobs joined labor squads to work in Germany...
...bounce in the rubber market came from the Japanese. In the smelly raw-rubber markets of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, whence comes 87% of U. S. rubber, Japs have overbid U. S. importers for weeks. Dutch rubber exports to Japan for the first half of 1940 (12,278 tons) were around the largest in history, nearly double those of the first half...
...away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index for 28 basic commodities was last week only 106.8, less than seven points above pre-war August 1939, and well down from last September's peak of 127.2. Meanwhile the price index of finished manufactured goods held practically level. The industrial raw materials index was 66.5 before the war, 72.3 in September, only 70.8 three weeks ago. Hence most businessmen do not yet fear runaway prices. Actually, they are more alarmed by the idea of price-fixing by the New Deal...