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Cold Comfort. This was the hope and promise that warmed the citizens of the 17 oil-rationed Eastern states as they shivered in winter's coldest weather. But hope was nearly all they had to keep them warm: the fuel-oil shortage had at last reached the crest of the crisis...
...crest of a wave the Nazis rode into the fateful year of 1939. In March they took the remnants of the Czechoslovak State and appeasement died. On Sept. 1 German guns and bombs boomed forth the start of World War II. After Poland and the "phony war," Norway fell; Western Europe awoke-too late. On May 10, 1940, four years and two months after its first thin columns had marched into the Rhineland, the Wehrmacht roared into the Lowlands and France to Paris and the Armistice of Compi...
...swept through behind you, fond Inch, swell-chested and sure. They doubted at first, but you never let us flounder, Inch. Swirl of summer heat, of lowly monetary battles, of drafting blue prints, of slowly rising waves, and the gay, milling mob mounting the crest of the stone-rimmed hill. You took us to the gods that were friends, with more yes and less no. The four of us, you with us, Inch, held fast to the heritages the banal would storm and rip open...
...electoral college. Down to defeat went such stalwart New Dealers as Oklahoma's Josh Lee and New Jersey's William H. Smathers, such New Deal sympathizers as Nebraska's venerable George Norris. The New Deal, on shaky ground since 1938, had now clearly fallen from its crest; if the conservative elements of the Democratic Party were eliminated, it would virtually become a minority party...
...crest of a gigantic air bubble bobbed the head of the party leader. Lunde and his wife stayed down. The Norwegian skipper of the ferry dived into the fjord, came up gasping, dived again. But it was not until 7 o'clock the next morning that the bodies were hauled up with...