Word: ersatz
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...pressure advertising plus cheap retail prices has put it over, that the nervous national tempo leads to excessive use of all stimulants. But it also may be that when depression nips an average man's buying power, he finds a 5? cup of coffee a sort of emotional ersatz for more expensive things...
...hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they did eat. What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms. The reputations...
...Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German's life as an Ersatz sausage in every pot. "This streamlined four-seater," barked the Fuhrer, "is a mechanical marvel. It can be bought on the installment plan for six Reichsmarks a week, including insurance...
...hopes to save 400,000,000 eggs a year. Out of 32 pounds of cheap fish is made a pound of extract which is supposed to be an adequate substitute for 160 hens' eggs. To make this extract palatable to Germans who had more than a bellyful of Ersatz (substitutes) during the War, and have been fed up with it again as a result of Nazi isolation policies, the Government hit upon an artful device: The new Ersatz will be called "Viking Eggs...
More than a snook was cocked at the British Navy last week when the German Navy officially admitted for the first time that it is secretly building a warship of the largest size, the Ersatz Hannover of 35,000 tons. This will be the Fatherland's first fullsize capital ship since the Great War. Two days after the Ersatz Hannover was officially announced, Berlin's semi-official military weekly sprang the further revelation that yet another 35,000-tonner will be rushed to completion to help cock the German national snook...