Word: ersatz
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Kapok's old rivals-cork and balsa wood-are no help. They are just as scarce. But ersatz kapoks are coming from field and factory and, as often happens, may win permanent victories over their prototype. Some of the more promising...
...North also sees a great market for his milk at home if urban consumers can learn to accept reconstituted milk as the real thing and not ersatz. Savings in transportation and refrigeration costs, a flattening of the seasonal production curve could substantially reduce city milk prices...
...Crooked Cross. This, at the bottom, is a war of the spirit. Hitler has tried to kill this spirit and substitute for it some ersatz thing, something which is really its negation. He has trampled underfoot the great faith which has nourished the West. He has trampled on the Cross and substituted for it a crooked cross-a fit symbol for the new devil worship which he has tried to impose on his country and the world...
Manpower. Since April, when President Roosevelt made tall, tan and terrific-Paul Vories McNutt head of WMC, Americans have expected the Manpower Tsar to start ordering them around: to tell businessmen whom they could hire, snatch housewives out of their homes. They did not realize that his title was ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take...
Others are taking an involuntary cure. Reason: Due to the dope shortage, dope adulteration in the last few years has reached a point where most of the heroin peddled in the U.S. is 98% milk sugar. This ersatz heroin is slowly working a cure on many drug addicts without their knowing...