Word: ersatz
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Link is made to feel almost like one of the family. Pop (Victor Moore), an after-the-whistle Edison, gums up their first handshake with some ersatz rubber. A young brother, ghoulishly interested in medicine, counts Link's metatarsals and pleads for a dram of blood. A budding sister hopes Link will marry her ("Plenty of girls marry before they...
...Sales of ersatz coffee and "extenders," which boomed during rationing, dropped to almost nothing-probably an advance tip on what will happen to things like rayon stockings when war ends and silk and nylon are available again...
...mechanical strength. In a radio broadcast he was quoted as saying: "I fought against the fathers. Now I'm fighting the sons. ... I do honestly think the fathers were better soldiers. . . . Hitler has ruined the German Army. . . . The German Army is not a real army. It is an ersatz army. It is obsessed with the desire for gain. ... It is a commercial army, not a military one. . . . The quality of any troops must atrophy under such conditions...
Meanwhile one U.S. record manufacturer happily continued making records as though Boss Petrillo and his ban did not exist. Eli Oberstein, proprietor of Classic Records Co., has no truck with vocal ersatz. Many of his records are made in Mexico and shipped to him in plastic pressings via air mail. Even well-known musicians, anxious to pick up some change, have brought him records they have made themselves...
...foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good cheese is scarce. The greatest loss is that of coffee. Swedes like it hot, strong and often, were the world's greatest per-capita consumers before the war. They now have 300 ersatz types...