Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Londoners have counted nearly 100 plant varieties growing in their city's bomb cavities. Most common is the rosebay willow herb. Some like to believe the plants spring from forgotten, centuries-old seed churned up by Nazi high explosive...
...lovely, has been destroyed. Bombs have created unexpected and delightful views; St. Paul's stands out as St. Peter's does in Rome, and one can see it to great advantage from distant open spaces. . . . Many hideous buildings make quite respectable ruins. From the rubble purple willow herb grows luxuriantly, and in one place I know of bracken is sprouting out of sandbags. . . . In Victoria Street a breed of ducklings has grown up comfortably from a nest in the rubble. Above all, for the first time in our lives, there is a sense of space...
Personal items: Staff Sgt. Herb Reininger's wife gave birth to their first child a few days ago, making Reininger the second man to become a father since the AST unit was formed here...
...shop ten feet wide, surrounded by seven pawnbrokers and nine saloons, black-haired Herb Luhn, 49, proprietor of the San Francisco Camera Exchange, last week went on being successful in a fantastic way. In normal times his customers ("They're all nuts, they only talk about photography") wait on one another, wrap purchases, ring up the cash register without disturbing him, use his telephone. They patronize no one else because there is no one like him and no shop like his (they have made it a meeting place, a center for the exchange of information...
...normal times Herb Luhn sold a thousand cameras and 10,000 rolls of film a year to amateurs, newspaper photographers and four commercial studios. Now he deals chiefly with the Army, Navy and war industries. To one customer recently Luhn said: "You want film and I have none. But you like my necktie. Here it is. No charge." Storekeeper Luhn and Stabilizer Brady are doing well. Last year they grossed $100,000 in this shop, expect this year to do 50% more...