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...good wage for a good stenographer and a man in the higher-income brackets may earn $50 a week. Money, for that matter, does not mean very much; there is so little Australians can buy: eight ounces of butter and two ounces of tea a week, no canned food. Milkmen and bakers are restricted to zones. Grocers and butchers make no deliveries. There are not enough houses, apartments or even hotel rooms...
...night long, low desolate sounds were heard in Newark, N.J. The sounds brought a vague disquiet to the hearts of young people returning from the movies, to milkmen beginning their rounds. Here & there a suburban householder, coming home late, could have sworn that he heard under his very feet the melancholy, muffled...
Among light trucks, Divco-Twin, unknown until three or four years ago, is breaking records with slow, low-powered, boxlike models for milkmen, bakery routes. This year's Divco line includes a refrigerated truck. Willys '41s look like converted passenger models, as do Hudson and Buick. Studebaker pioneered cab-over-engine design in 1937. It sold thousands of trucks to the Allies last winter. Tailing the procession are the buglike, tiny Crosley panel deliveries and pickups. Chief selling point: cent-a-mile operation...
...Ground, the British tightened their defenses as the sky war raged on. They arrested scores of persons suspected of showing light signals to guide Nazi raiders.* They tested the Home Guard's vigilance by turning loose fake parachutists, secret agents disguised as clergymen, tourists, milkmen, postmen, women, bummers. One "businessman" was detected when he asked the way of a wary countrywoman, a "girl" by the masculine way he handled a cigaret...
...closed my eyes . . . felt something cold being pressed against my left temple. . . . Opening my eyes I saw that it was actually a revolver. . . . I felt the bullet plow into my head." In another bed in the same hospital lay his polo-playing son-in-law Donald Burdick, 39, whom milkmen had found unconscious in the wreck of an automobile, morning after the shooting. Moaned he: "I'll be ready to talk when I feel better...