Word: overcoat
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...reporter for Britain's Manchester Guardian tells the story of an overcoat which was stolen from a U.S. vice consul in Pusan and which the local authorities were anxious to recover. A few days after the theft, Pusan's chief of police personally reported to the coat's owner. "All is well," said the chief, "as I am currently torturing two suspects...
Heavier clothing is necessary for the ocean voyage thus European climes require. The shrewd traveler takes a tweed or woolen suit and overcoat with him just for the high seas and stores them away when he lands until September...
...pound of meat cost 3.5 marks, a pack of cigarettes 2 marks, an overcoat 200 marks. The fact that he and other workers could not buy at high prices has gradually halted the trade spurt created in 1947 when Western Germany's Economic Director Ludwig Erhard removed many governmental price-fixing and other controls. Erhard, however, did not remove private controls exercised by more than 2,000 German trade associations. The associations have kept prices high to get all the profits they can. The associations tell the shopkeeper how much to charge. If he disobeys, the association...
...afternoon last week, a train from Oranienburg rolled into Gesund-brunnen Station in Berlin's French sector. Haggard men in tattered clothes and bony, hollow-eyed women straggled onto the platform. Last to get out was a white-faced, white-haired old man with a frayed velvet-collared overcoat. He leaned gasping against a wall. "Yes, yes, from over there," he muttered. "I must be dreaming. Please don't ask me any questions...
...kept my eyes on a sturdy, hatchet-faced man confined in a blue, double-breasted overcoat because he knew what was going on. Most of the people who were attracted by the bunting knew nothing; they just waited for the show. But the hatchet-faced man, who was an official, knew all of the policemen and also many of the tall and short red-faced men in hombergs and Chesterfields who waited on the reviewing stand and elsewhere. He shook hands with many of them and passed remarks, and invariably the tall and short red-faced men smiled wisely...