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...improbable, and possible only because of the friendly insanity of the two heroines. The Brewster sisters do not merely murder; they simply help lonely old men find peace. They serve elderberry wine (to one gallon of wine, add one tsp. arsenic, one-half tsp. strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide), and give each of their gentlemen a full burial in the rites of his religion. "Murder? Certainly not! It's one of our charities." And, in their sweet way, they have a point...
...certainty by Christmas time, with the private motorist the first to suffer from it. Some industries dependent on oil are making plans to convert to coal, which will in turn bring up the problem of getting more coal. Steet production and its offspring, shipbuilding, will soon feel the pinch. Supplies of tin, rubber, wool and tea, all normally shipped through Suez, will inevitably decline...
...France, where 30% of all factories depend upon oil for fuel, the pinch is already starting to hurt. French railroads are cutting back schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...
...told, Western Europe has only enough oil on hand for five weeks. To conserve it, Great Britain has already started rationing oil by cutting consumer supplies 10% at the distributor level; France began rationing gasoline by restricting all pleasure travel and tourism. Other European nations are also feeling the pinch...
...Consumer Pinch & Cars. For all the progress, East Germany is the only satellite where food is still rationed. By most economic standards, East Germany is being far outdistanced by West Germany. At the end of its first five-year plan in 1955, the Soviet zone (pop. 18 million) fell short of its quota for new housing by completing only 215,000 new dwellings, while West Germany (pop. 50 million) was finishing more than 2,000,000. In roughly the same period, real wages went up 50% in the East, 100% in the Bonn Republic. Last week West Germany released...