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Everywhere Britons again carried their gas masks and the whole Air Raid Precautions system was pepped up afresh. "If you are caught in the open and cannot reach shelter," advised the Home Office, "lie down and cover your head with your arms." Newspapers urged the people to keep cool if & when death dropped out of the skies; told them that the one you hear doesn't get you, that Britain has plenty of fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns to drive off aerial Blitzkriegers...
...years ago Katharine Brush decided to start afresh, "not my old way, but the free-style way, where you just let 'er rip." She wrote anything and everything, semiautomatically, filed it away in eight big cabinets labeled "Ideas," "Characters F," "Characters M," etc. Soon she felt better. But she now badly reeded cash. So she suggested to her publishers, Farrar & Rinehart, that they bring cut a volume of her short stories...
...concluded a visit to the U. S. by buying two 10,000-ton cargo ships and sailed for Rio de Janeiro with his wife No. 2, Austrian Actress Herta Schneider. His use for the ship's: to carry cargoes to Europe from Argentina, where he is starting out afresh as a tycoon...
...when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge and party feeling above the welfare and safety of the American people" because "they hate Roosevelt...
...Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...