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...Their one room on Dan-zigerstrasse had no windowpanes. One morning last week, as freezing winds and snow swept Berlin, the Neumanns could not force themselves to get out of their bed, though it had only one thin eider down for cover. That night the wind tore loose the cardboard over the window; snow drifted in at the foot of the bed. Next morning the Neumanns, paralyzed with cold, could not move. After another day and night they were dead. Their bodies were loaded onto a flowerless handcart, taken to one of the thousand mass graves already...
...glass transom was covered with cardboard. Outside the grey-enameled door stood three husky sergeants at arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...
...announced Eastman, it had had a bit of radium trouble some time ago. A batch of film had been spoiled by packing it in cardboard made partly of waste paper from a factory using radium paint. Since then, the company had tested all packing materials for radioactivity. For a long time no trouble showed up. But recently, a shipment of strawboard proved to have 1,000 radioactive specks per sheet. The batch of strawboard had been discarded. The company preferred to say no more...
Lacking real tragedy or psychological depth, the melodrama seems cut from cardboard. Thérèse, a presumably passionate and strong-willed woman, seems anemic compared to her sister connivers at murder; she lacks the hard fascination of Ruth Snyder quite as much as the grand villainy of Lady Macbeth...
...breakneck race to deliver postwar toys in time for Christmas, the $200 million toy industry was falling behind. By last week manufacturers were ready to admit that this will be another year of cardboard and wood makeshifts: there will be few, if any, dolls of prewar quality, few rubber balls that really bounce, few electric trains, velocipedes, roller skates, bicycles and other wheeled and metal toys...