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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balloons are kept in the stratosphere by a device which jettisons a sandbag whenever they begin to drop. Blown along by the prevailing easterly wind at some 125 m.p.h., the balloons reach the U.S. in an estimated 80 to 120 hours. When the last sandbag has dropped, Japs calculate, the balloon should have reached its goal. Another automatic gadget then starts it dropping, one by one; its load of incendiary bombs. When the last egg has been laid, a third automatic device (providing it works) permits the Jap balloon, in true Nipponese style, to blow itself...
...over, are they going to be sad young men. No, I do not think so. And I do not think so for a most excellent reason, they are sad young men already, if you are sad young men then there is a fair chance that life will begin at 30 instead of ending at 30 and I think more or less that is what is going to happen to this generation...
...family house, $2,000 on a three-and up to $5,000 on a five-family house. But most expenditures would be in repairs, and most repairs would require lumber - which is shorter than ever. (The U.S. construction industry was also told that it could begin preliminary earth moving operations for new projects without WPB authorization - if no lumber or other construction materials except drainage pipe were required...
...Problems facing the military government were as complicated as is the entire issue of Austria. To begin with, the Nazis had burned all the city records, including food-rationing files. Worst of all was the fact that Salzburg had always been plagued with a strong element of ardent Nazis, whose numbers were augmented by thousands who streamed in from Germany...
...told a Variety reporter that "a lot of loving is coming back from the war," then shook an admonishing finger at her sisters in arms: "Many wonderful men are already on the way home to their wives and sweethearts, and the lady who has been stepping out had best begin to polish off her low talk and shifty ways before he arrives...