Word: ersatz
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...submarine circled about the captain's boat. A Nazi sailor gave the men four tins of ersatz bread, two tins of butter. Said the Nazi commander: "I'm sorry, but you were carrying supplies to my country's enemy." The German promised to radio the Robin Moor's position. Then he slid away into...
...former No. 1 French Publisher Jean Prouvost, all that remains is a one-page shadow of the once-great Paris-soir. His picture weekly, Match, once ranking as the French LIFE with a circulation of 2,500,000, has been taken over by the Germans, published as an "ersatz" called La Semaine. Seized also was his Marie-Claire (French Ladies' Home Journal, with circulation of 1,250,000), and supplanted by a Nazi rag called Pour Elle...
...conclave with a savory, super-spiced banquet costing $10.12 a plate. But the very spices they were eating might not be replaceable until war's end. The spice industry is the No. 1 example of a business where shortages will soon be complete, with no recourse to ersatz. Some examples: > Before the war, sage was plucked by Greek and Yugoslav goatherders. With these sources out, U.S. trade prices have risen from 7? to $1.35 a pound. When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage instead, it could not be sold because t smacked of turpentine. Though a sprinking...
...after Adolf Hitler came to power he wanted colonies for strategy and prestige. And today, when his strategy is simply to take what he wants, when his prestige comes from doing so, he has found that colonial drum pounding helps to drown out German complaints about food shortages and ersatz commodities. Present Nazi talk of gaining not only Germany's lost colonies but all Africa carries a great deal more weight than mere propaganda...
Replacing natural materials which we now import with "ersatz" would require at least three years of great industrial effort, he said, and would mean great dislocation of our economy if it had to be carried out during a maximum war effort...