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...applicants would get the 416 new houses. About 2,000, including women with babies on their backs, slept in the subway; others grubbed for a roof in rusty tin sheds, converted barges, burned-out buses or the ruins of a temple. Curiously, the natives could scrape together enough lumber and rice straws to fashion a monstrous symbol: in the town of Sahara, a malevolently glowering American eagle was paraded in tribute to the new Japanese Constitution...
...narrow side street in lower Manhattan is a drab, recessed doorway that bears the legend: "Dr. Peter Schlumbohm. Walk One Flight Up." In a loft upstairs is a bright, orderly array of glass, aluminum, cork, plastics, cartons, and laboratory gimmicks. Off to one side is the rough-lumber worktable at which Dr. Schlumbohm, 50, a large (225 lbs.), hearty man with a bellowing laugh, has worked out 1,000 inventions. Last week he was fondling two newborn brain children: the Tubadipdrip, a combination coffeemaker-teamaker and cocktail mixer, and the Tempot, a combination fireless cooker-ice cream freezer-frozen food...
...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...
...months after the war's end, some seven million Germans and Japs were still held prisoner in Allied countries. From Germany and her satellites Soviet Russia alone still retained an estimated four million. From Japan she held a million-odd more. Throughout the U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored for the glory of the new five-year plan. Shortly before the elections in Germany's Russian zone, Moscow released 120,000, but most of these were sickly, unskilled, or unfit for work. They made poor propaganda...
...what were to become the American and British sectors as well as in their own. British military police were busy tearing down this and similar Russian signs in the British sector. The official explanation (given, deadpan, by a British Army Public Relations officer): "Conservation of lumber...