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...Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when you become...
...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...
...sail in two weeks are two French freighters tied up in New York Harbor, with 13,500 tons of white flour (a gift of the U. S. Red Cross). U. S. conditions: 1) the food can go only to unoccupied ports; 2) it must be directly distributed by the Red Cross; 3) "not a single pound" of similar or equivalent food must pass into Occupied France; 4) the ships must return immediately...
Still ahead lay other potential shortages -steel, copper, brass, power, freight-car manufacturing, foundries, shipping. As an omen of the shipping uncertainty, the price of imports-cocoa, rubber, silk-rose last week. Other commodities (flour, cotton goods, sugar) did the same. Meanwhile wages also nudged the trend. The woolen-textile industry upped wages 10%, and steelworkers met a U. S. Steel offer of 2½?-an-hour increase by a demand for 10?. By this week it was clear that, even if major strikes are averted, the U. S. economy was turning into a shortage economy. Higher inventories, higher prices...
...years old.] I have to do everything for him-dress him, wash him, feed him. . . . There is no doctor of pharmacy anywhere around. . . . There are only Kalmucks and Kirghiz people here. Some receive packages of food. If possible, send us some. . . . The most important things for us are some flour, sugar, tea and some sort of fats. We would be waiting for these packages as children wait for Father Christmas. Of course, we don't know whether they would ever reach...