Word: ersatz
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...thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
...nationalism than any other Americans for, unless the U. S. buys imports from abroad, foreigners have no exchange with which to buy U. S. cotton. In his plans for cotton's future, Grower Johnston seemed to rely not so much on the revival of world trade as on ersatz technology and the maintenance of a potent growers' lobby in Congress, able to unload its surplus on Uncle Sam - for cash...
Concerning Eli Whitney, scholars have ginned from history only a few pale fluffs of information. Roger Burlingame, social-minded historian of U. S. invention (Engines of Democracy, etc.), has woven these factual fluffs, plus a few skeins of imaginative ersatz, into an attractive fabric which is part novel, part biography: Whittling Boy-the Story of Eli Whitney...
...other resources, paying with occupation marks of little value. German soldiers get double rations. But even with all the food taken from Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare. Sample menu: for breakfast, ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets...
...simply that his program was "Germany Speaking," the Freiheitsender commentator, who may have been speaking from Switzerland, mocked Göring on the failure of his second four-year plan, which ended last week, contended Hitler had overrun Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France because ersatz food and gasoline had failed him, declared the only people not weeping in Germany "are the rascals who are now in power." Winding up its program, the Freiheitsender remarked: "Sometimes we think the Nazis are overdoing it. Even the most peaceful and most calm of us might not stand...