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...plot against Hitler. He helped prospective terror victims escape, falsified reports to dissuade Hitler from invading Spain, saved the lives of French Generals Giraud and Weygand after Hitler ordered them assassinated. He and other undercover rebels kept a detailed chronology of Nazi crimes since 1933 and a card index of Nazi leaders. These and other documents, involving 2,000 Germans in the plot against Hitler, were subsequently seized by the Gestapo...
...basis of the diagnosis, an insurance company paid Mrs. Walker a fast $239 in damages. Since medical expenses took up more than half this amount, it seemed a trifling settlement for so serious an injury. But when the Southwest Index Bureau later began to make a routine check of the claim, it found something hauntingly familiar about Mrs. Walker and her injury...
...prices could not be controlled satisfactorily without a change in the law.) Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food prices as of Dec. 15 had jumped 3.2% in a month, to within a hair's breadth of 1948's alltime high; by last week the index was probably at a new peak...
SOLITUDE --from the Widener Card Index...
...Impossible? Actually, the Administration's attempts to hold down prices by direct controls could not have much effect so long as food prices-which make up 40% of the Government's cost-of-living index-were uncontrolled. And they would be uncontrolled until Congress changed the Defense Production Act, which forbids control of farm prices until they reach the sky-high level of parity. Until then, there was little that Stabilizer Valentine could do about food prices. Even the Administration seemed to see the folly of trying to control everything but food. At year's end, President...