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With few exceptions, the British press opposes the blackout. Argued Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "We shall return to the Dark Ages. . . . The blackout will clog our transport and put fresh brakes on industrial production. ... In 1941 industrial accidents among men rose by 42% over 1938; among women by 192%. . . .In 1940 many citizens accepted the blackout as a grim necessity. . . . 1940 is as remote as 1840 for everybody -except the Government departments which imposed the blackout and on this matter have suffered a mental blackout ever since...
...second-quarter earnings reports began to clog the ticker tapes last week, one fact stood out: despite hell & high taxes U.S. corporations made more money than they had dared hope. The gloomily Republican New York Sun totted up 155 companies' earnings, came out with a 16.6% increase for this year's June quarter over last year's; a 14.1% gain for the first half...
...newest revenue measures falling short of actual war costs, no phase of the nation's accelerated production program can afford to lay itself open to accusations of faulty economy. Already the gap between buying power and consumer goods is of inflationary proportions. Dust on Aiken's charges can clog the war machine...
...Drowning is slowest, most effective, most difficult. Mud and water forced down the well shaft under great pressure clog the subterranean oil channels, back the oil right into the rock formations...
...Occidental shoes the school bully razzed him. Nomura pulled off one shoe, beat the bully with it until the shoe was unwearable. But his thrifty mother had declared that the shoes must last six months, so for six months Kichisaburo clumped around in one western shoe, one Japanese clog...