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...markets last week; black pepper to 3.86? a lb. Wool futures also rose to $1.175 a lb., implicating Australia. Unquoted on any organized market, but nonetheless crucial to U. S. defense, was quinine, of which the U. S. has none too much on hand. Practically all cinchona bark (from which quinine is made) comes from The Netherlands East Indies...
...with an Air Marshal. After dinner he sinks into a big blue chair, turns a spotlight on himself, leaving his guests in the dark, and goes over his papers, firing questions at the guests. In the midst of their answers he interrupts them by picking up a telephone and bark ing: "I want 20 lorries," or "Get me Montreal. . . . I want 50 pilots. I want them at Montreal tomorrow morning." If he happens to notice that his guests look thirsty, he will say: "You must have some champagne. I have the finest champagne collection in London." Every night he telephones...
...Best animal: Sharkey, the seal whose bark is better than his bite in Higher and Higher...
...midnight last week three German planes were spotted skimming low off England's southeast coast. Soon antiaircraft guns began to bark up & down the shore. A heavy Heinkel bomber, her belly freighted with mines, was squarely...
...heart beat. My hand shook a little. Suppose that he were one of those sharp, kindly-savage Americans who bark like dogs, sit in their shirt sleeves, curse and swear, chew the damp stubs of cigars." It is, however, only Alfred Noyes. But the novelist's journalistic boss turns up soon enough, steers him around to see the Pope lying in state, coaches him on how to open his articles with a bang...