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Bail as it might, Washington was being swamped by a war-swollen tide of business and people...
...months of war was the admitted record of at least 4,300,000 gross tons of shipping lost at sea. This was a net loss (after replacements) of some 2,650,000 tons (TIME, March 24). Less than 18,000,000 tons were left to haul the war-swollen traffic of an empire...
...child seems to have a bad cold. He coughs & sneezes, his nose runs, so do his eyes. He is feverish. His neck is swollen, throat sore, tongue furry. At this point an experienced parent or doctor will suspect measles. After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows...
Over the Yugoslav railroads sealed freight trains carrying German war machinery kept rumbling toward the Bulgarian border. The German forces in Rumania were said to total 600,000, and across the early swollen Danube between Rumania and Bulgaria Nazi engineers had already thrown a network of pontoon bridges...
Skimpy harvests for next year had been assured by more strangulating, if less direct, German inroads. Farms had been wrecked after their owners fled before the advancing Germans last summer. Cattle were scattered or killed and eaten by the troops, milk-swollen cows ruined by neglect. Disrupted electric systems had stopped refrigeration, allowing precious foodstuffs to spoil in the hot summer months. Grain needed for spring sowing is expensive and hard to find...