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...black market here is impossibly expensive-butter is hard to find at $100 a pound, a loaf of bread costs from $5 to $12. Black market meals in restaurants are of very poor quality and also extremely expensive...
Congress, which had hoped and planned for a lazy, two-months' loaf, will have just about half that. With dozens of questions begging for answers, Harry Truman decided to talk things over with Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley. The decision: Congress will return on Sept. 4, instead...
...guess for the best view from any TIME office anywhere you'd have to go to Rio de Janeiro: in their window-gazing moments our correspondentsthere can look across Rio Harbor to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Drawback: to get into the office at night, you'd have to go through a neighboring apartment building, rise in a rickety service elevator, grope your way down some very dark corridors...
...jeeps), U.S. troops wormed gradually around the Japanese defense line in the south. In the east infantrymen captured the seaport village of Yonabaru and swept on in a flanking drive. The Japs withdrew hastily, for the first time abandoning large supply dumps intact. On the west marines secured Sugar Loaf and Half Moon Hills, at week's end held half of Naha...
...rotten treatment; and the gently experienced old lady replies, "O dear, it's a shame, isn't it? Who'll have another chocolate biscuit?" But it is in their worst failure that the men learn their best lesson. Deliberately "getting killed'' in order to loaf through a sham-battle, they already are soldiers enough to be ashamed...