Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partly Whipped Cream. Most West Germans live only about half as well as they did in 1936; most refugees live half as well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...
With its swept-back wings and dual power plant, the Skyrocket is closer than the X-I to being a practical supersonic airplane. Flying on its turbojet alone, it has a respectable endurance: about half an hour. In combat, the rocket motor could give it brief bursts of superspeed...
Hastie is a former District Judge of the Virgin Islands and has been governor of the Islands for the past three and a half years...
Silently, with its eyes demurely downeast, the '46 Album has joined us three and a half years late. The men it depicts at work and play have graduated, of course, but perhaps they will be interested. The advertisers have probably gone out of business, but those that remain will be interested to see what they were selling in 1946, and will no doubt be stimulated to advertise in later yearbooks by this display of kept bargains. The Corporation will have a chance to weigh the Album in one hand against the stub of a $5000 check in the other...
...present the '49 Album is more than half finished...