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...hard-hit Carentan, Americans got their warmest welcome. The townspeople said that the farmers round about sold to the Germans and the black market before they would sell to the local people. Many of the farmers have grown rich-again according to the townspeople. Now that the franc is pegged at 50 to the dollar (it was 250 to the dollar on the black market), they are richer than ever...
...furs in the street. Sometimes this is the act of patriots resentful of profiteers and collaborators. More frequently it is the sign of increasing lawlessness, a growth of gangsterism. Women "defy restrictions with monumental hats that take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected the guillotine under that other terror...
...medical magazines now in existence, a new one was added last week: the Journal of Neurosurgery. It brought news of two new medical materials, fibrin foam and fibrin film. They are made from human blood. For six months, Drs. Franc Douglas Ingraham and Orville Taylor Bailey of Boston have used them to stanch oozing blood and replace lost tissue in brain operations...
Mournfully the Madrid correspondent reported: "The last session of roulette was desolating. People played only 10-and 20-franc notes. The baccarat game . . . closed for lack of a banker. The barman at the Casino sold his last Henry Clay cigars for 1,000 francs. A few weeks ago they were 10,000 francs. Nobody wanted to buy whiskey. . . . Monaco is a desert...
...hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...