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Conceding that Britain's July-August losses were "relatively low," Germans talked knowingly of a sudden upward spurt, boasted of a vastly augmented submarine fleet, "new weapons" and improved tactical methods, new fully trained submarine crews. They promised additional and expanded U-boat wolf packs, and pointed out that long winter nights are a prime U-boat advantage, since subs usually remain submerged during the day, fight from the surface at night...
...ever-optimistic journalists came out on Monday with a gentlemanly editorial on the "fair and square" defeat and, looking ever upward and onward, urged the College to "go forward united and stronger than ever into the victory which we can and will win next fall...
...know?" Mac, indignantly: "I ken fine where we are. We're approaching Karlsruhe-famous for its breweries, you know." "O.K., let's go down and smell its breath." Over the target the mood changes. Flak (antiaircraft) and tracers zoom upward in great, searing arcs, phosphorescent balls of fire in the black night. Starting slowly, they pick up tremendous speed, whoof past the bomber like heaven-bent rockets...
...rest would have been "routine." The long screaming run down the airport as the plane labored to lift its heavy load of gasoline. The plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...
...prices on 28 basic commodities have climbed steadily since August, 1939, the month chosen by the Bureau as the index month for prices. During two weeks last August, when the Committee was energetically, but unproductively, listening to testimony on the bill, the average price of all these commodities bounded upward by more than 50 per cent. And by-mid-September the price index had risen to 157. In other words, we're paying nearly two-thirds more for what we buy today than we did for the same products when the present defense emergency began...