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>The nation's livestock growers were also on a kind of strike. On U.S. pastures and ranges, from Texas' giant King Ranch down to the tiniest farm, grazed more cattle (80,000,000 head) than ever before in history. Yet stockyards all over the U.S. were nearly empty...
Into minds dulled by years of propaganda and on to nerves chewed raw by this winter's bombings, Mussolini rubbed wholly fabricated atrocity stores: U.S. airmen, "bloodthirsty flying gangsters," have been bombing only churches, hospitals and nurseries; fiendish pilots have been dropping lipsticks, ladies' purses, flashlights, pens, pencils...
Giant Lancasters, attacking the northern industrial heart of Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering...
The bombers also struck more immediately at the U-boats. Twice last week the R.A.F. raided Lorient, plastered the repair shops that U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators had left standing, and rained blockbusters on the huge U-boat pens. Whether they succeeded in getting through the 11-ft. concrete roofs...
Consumer Goods. Most retail shops have closed. Those still functioning, like Moscow's five-story Mostorg department store, have little more than rows of empty counters. Housewives can rarely get pots & pans, chinaware, hairpins, combs, brushes, soap. Men cannot buy razor blades, pens or watches.