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...endless stream of endless picaresque costume novels that sprang from the huge success of Anthony Adverse (1,224 pages) and Gone With the Wind (1,037 pages), this one has two distinctions. It is one of the longest (1,176 pages) and it is Viking's first gamble with this gargantuan species. Being in other respects no better and no worse than other imitators, it spreads sail before some of the steadiest book-trade-winds that blow...
...first "gasless" Sunday a steady stream of cars lined the roads; traffic was in its normal Sunday jam. Most drivers had filled their tanks on Saturday, but some set out with drums of gasoline strapped to their luggage racks. Few drove more slowly, as the Government had asked them to do, to save gas. Many guessed wrong on the day's consumption, abandoned their cars beside the road. Those who tried to bribe service stations to slip them a little bootleg were turned down: the rumor was out that the Government had spotters on the roads...
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...Americans also learned that the winters aren't so cold and the defenses aren't so hot. Even though Iceland is tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would...
Iceland is now nearly treeless. This is not entirely the climate's fault: its coasts, washed by the Gulf Stream, are warmer than the high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...