Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fired by oil rationing and the trend of history to display his unique collection of 19th-Century coal and wood stoves (prices: $30 to $200). Manhattanites, sweltering all week long, did not buy a single stove, but Hobe Erwin, waiting almost as eagerly as the Russians for a frost, is sure they will. Meanwhile his stoves' iron elegance appealed to amateurs of American...
With typical thoroughness, the New Order's statisticians announced that the winter's frost had penetrated 115 centimeters (45 inches) into the earth, stayed an almost disastrous 85 days. Winter grain crops were partially destroyed, spring planting delayed, so many fruits and vegetables lost that a 90% reduction in next winter's canned goods was predicted. Willing to blame everyone but themselves for their own difficulties, the Herrenvolk looked to the rest of Europe for foodstuffs, found that in two years the New Order had pillaged virtually everything in sight...
...Fields. Expecting increased crops from the Balkans, the Germans learned that peasant stubbornness and guerrilla warfare had cut production by at least one-third. Without fertilizer or tools, with 1,500,000 soldiers still interned in Germany, agricultural France was lying fallow. The winter frost, the scorched-earth policy and lack of tractors had withered the lush wheat crop in the Ukraine...
Added advantages: no fouling (carbon dioxide evaporates completely), cool operation-the barrel, instead of heating up, sometimes gathers frost...
...remainder of the magazine is given over to impressionistic book reviews mainly of "avant garde" literature. Eric Larrabee's excellent review of Robert Frost's new book stresses the fact that we must now turn away from the post-war despair literature of the last twenty years. This May issue is an excellent indication that the swing is taking place in the Advocate Sanctum, at least among the short story writers, who may not be dealing with current war themes, but have departed from the haunted degeneracy of the past few years...