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Four days later Patton prayed in a different vein: "Sir, this is Patton again and I beg to report complete progress . . . Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the situation than I was, because it was that awful weather which I cursed so much which made it possible for the German army to commit suicide. That, Sir, was a brilliant military move and I bow humbly to a supreme military genius...
...Done. As 1948 began, oil was so short that oilmen worried about a .return to rationing (during one cold spell, New York City had to beg oil from the Navy to keep its hospitals and schools warm). To stave off rationing, oilmen earmarked $5 billion for expansion in 1948-49 and worked as never before. Wildcatters roamed the U.S. far & wide, looking for oil in the most unlikely places...
...beg forgiveness...
...Londoner, obsessed by the high cost of living in Britain, wrote to the Times about the excesses of this year's Guy Fawkes Day, on which London urchins traditionally beg "a penny for the Guy, sir?" "I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?' ... I feel constrained to inquire whether the country can today afford a surcharge of 100 percent for such a matter...
There have been four minor fires around the College in the last ten days, which has suggested to some keen minds that an arsonist may be at large. If this is so, I would like to beg him, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, to stop setting these petty little blazes and to start thinking...