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...Jones' Dairy Farm was forbidden to advertise
Last July 14 the people of France, by order of Vichy, were forbidden to celebrate Bastille Day, the hallowed festival of French democracy. But in the ancient city of Caen, Normandy, an automobile sped to the Franco-Prussian War memorial. A man uniformed as a French officer jumped out, placed a wreath on the memorial stones, made a quick getaway...
...Cabinet decreed a "capital mobilization plan," bringing all finance, industry, production and distribution under Government control. All financial institutions will be organized into a single body with the Bank of Japan as the nucleus. Private financing will be forbidden. A semi-compulsory national-savings plan will be inaugurated. Control of stock exchanges and money markets will be tightened. Available capital will be allocated "rationally" by the Government. At this news the Stockmarket went from a sag into a slump...
After a hard day, the doctor is comfortably settled with pipe & slippers-and the telephone rings. Does he answer the phone? Of course. But in the British Lancet last week, an anonymous doctor revealed a "valued little secret"-a deception not specifically forbidden by the letter of the Hippocratic oath...
...this week still fighting, still strong-but taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...