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...baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came...
This was the worst month the Long Island ever had. But even in a good month there are close to 2,000 trains late on the road, which has the heaviest commuter traffic (and lowest fares) of any railroad into Manhattan. Trains, always full, run nose to tail morning & night. But last fortnight Long Island suburbia was thrilled by a glimpse of a better future, a vision of clean, fast and comfortable trains, clicking off their schedules with streamliner punctuality. The Long Island would like to be such a railroad after the war, and said so, in a pamphlet issued...
...June losses from submarine attack were the lowest since the U.S. entered the war. Shipping losses "from all forms of enemy action" were the second lowest since the war began...
...been massacred, and he pointed up the probable effects of that triumph on German morale. Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's High Commissioner to Canada, said in Ottawa that in a recent fortnight at least one submarine was destroyed every day. The German claims of sinkings in June were the lowest since the war began: 107,000 tons, down 800,000 tons from the 1943 high in March...
...eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously, leaving an even deeper darkness. . . . Bright, large sparks occurred among the stars and vanished; they were bursting shells. . . ." When the Blitz was over, the village was spent, spiritually at its lowest...