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Bewildered by this sudden turn of events (though something like it had been promised), consumers wondered how the remaining 90% was going to be distributed. Outside of declaring that service stations should discriminate in favor of commercial and farm vehicles and private cars on business bent, Mr. Henderson gave no hint. Distribution was up to the man at the pump...
Public assassinations of statesmen and kings (probably with the connivance of the police); weird disappearances; bloody purges; sudden emergence of strange characters from underground struggles in Europe's political depths; treason in the highest places; deserters running from all sides to all camps - in the ten years before World War II these curiosa were not merely foretastes of war and the collapse of nations. They were evidence to one East Prussian farmer that "an age has come to its end," because the moral sanctions by which until then men had lived had lost all meaning...
...refuse to accept all the forced machinery of a rediscovery of Latin America and of putting the formidable technical and financial power of the American movies, the radio and the press at the service of a sudden continental conquest...
Among objections to his proposal that were voiced last week was the assertion that the cow is no dull creature of sodden disposition, but a delicately organized mass of nerves, easily wrought up to the point of not giving down; a sudden upset, such as an hour's change in the milking time, might make a cow tense, thereby impairing the flow of milk necessary for national defense. Cows do indeed take a few days to get used to such a change, but their discomfort is nowhere nearly so great or so enduring as that of farmers. In wintertime...
...peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles as "Mr." There were also many chest-throwing stories of Russian Army prowess written in old-fashioned dime-novel style. Typical sample: "Soviet frontier guards, who sustained the first sudden attack of the perfidious fascist enemy, fought like lions and covered themselves with immortal glory. . . ." But the Worker did not in so many words predict a Soviet victory...