Word: ersatz
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...Germany's most brilliant chemists, may some day be the most bitterly hated by that country's common people. He is a specialist in those technologies to which necessity is not only mother but sedulous nurse. Vivid in the German mind is a hateful memory of the Ersatz (substitute) foods consumed in great quantities during and after the War. If natural food again becomes scarce in Germany, Chemist Bergius will doubtless be in charge of producing Ersatz food for empty German stomachs. Lately he has worked out on a mass-production basis the manufacture of edible substances from...
...expanding Army, Navy and Air Force. Last week in Berlin most businessmen agreed that the dumping fund was set up chiefly because German War Minister General Werner von Blomberg has been loudly complaining that he cannot get together a proper lighting force if obliged to equip it with German Ersatz (substitute) materials...
...next few months are of immense significance to Europe's peace of mind. Will France remain on the gold standard? Will she avoid the perils of Fascism? Will Germans be satisfied with "Ersatz" food and clothing? Will Hitler, in the event of popular endorsement in the Saar, consent to Austria's independence? These questions are but the most pressing at the moment. In their settlement lies the future of modern Europe...
...Ersatz. Of the hour and a half speech which followed, during which Orator Hitler slowly worked himself up to normal platform frenzy, a half hour was devoted to a labored introduction rehearsing events "since the abdication of the Kaiser," for "fairness requires that our results be judged by what would have happened if we had not conquered!" Bolshevism would have happened, according to Chancellor Hitler, but he admitted with truly brutal frankness that what is happening now is a boycott of Germany such that her people face having to return this winter to eating Ersatz, the substitute foods they grew...
...Germans were told precisely what the Socialist Reichstag had in mind last week when it proposed to double the surtax on German incomes: to buld a sister to the Ersatz Preussen...