Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Russian troops lived off the land as they had in wartime. They continued to send back to Russia bicycles, threadbare clothing, other poor possessions of the masses of poor Germans. In twelve months they took more than half of their zone's current industrial production as reparations. Americans took things too, but what they did was illegal and what they took was mostly luxury articles like Crown jewels, Mercedes-Benz cars, yachts. After a year most Germans felt under the British and Americans they could eventually work back to a normal life, and that under the Russians they...
...line with his argument that the problem is one of proper leadership and not a new system, he makes sis specific suggestions preceded by the statement that. "No one can deny that there was an abundance of poor leadership, but a recitation of grievances is fruitless...
...blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots of those falsely reassuring multiple choice questions and an ultra-involved point system which manages to cut away as much credit for every right answer as possible while counting all the wrong answers twice as much. The poor examinee begins to wonder, after a does of this, whether Bix Beiderbecke played a horn or a bass viol. But the Great Collector usually goes on and on, relentlessly playing momentary snatches of Bobby Hackett's guitar, PeeWee Russell's saxophone, and Tommy Dorsey's trumpet cleverly hiding even...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
Second. The idea that the OPA is of benefit to the poor who cannot afford to pay black market prices is simply absurd. Inflation is caused by scarcity: scarcity is caused by under-production; and a man who cannot make what he considers enough profit will not produce...