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From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...
...game: two U.S. soldiers showed up at a farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
Alarm Burglar. In Yonkers, N.Y., a burglar ransacked a house's silver, linen and other valuables, made off with a single prize : the alarm clock...
...German conquest has been clear and consistent. First came a vast physical looting, in which trains were requisitioned to carry to Germany movable property: machinery, raw materials, food stocks, books, scientific instruments, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, art objects and collections, furniture, park benches, clothing, soap, hardware, garden tools, bed linen, doorknobs. The trains themselves seldom returned...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...