Word: pre-war
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Since censors have scissored daily weather forecasts out of the newspapers, U.S. citizens have tended to forget their favorite pre-war topic. Last week they learned with a shock that the weather had been worse this spring than in any other spring in 60 years. The American Red Cross let out the news...
...close to 200,000 barrels more, the present rationing rate will let the East begin putting around 100,000 barrels a day back into its depleted inventories (though the section will still be far short of the 1,600,000 barrels a day it used to consume in carefree pre-war days...
...effectiveness of German propaganda. The ''greatest blunder" of Hitler's career, Lochner said, was when he "took upon himself the odium of declaring war upon the U.S." Having for months told the German people that "we won't let ourselves be provoked" by the U.S. pre-war attitude, Hitler then had to confront his people with war against a nation whose entry into World War I had once before turned the tide against them...
...eight shops I walked into, in four they knew no English, in three they under stood it but answered me in German. In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English. Of English books it had almost none. Most of its stock was German of pre-war origin. It had picture postcards of Swakop mund and Windhoek, and of Hamburg and Heidelberg...
Junior Warriors. Meanwhile Government Youth Training Centers, greatly enlarged since pre-war days, teach British children leaving school at 14 the mastery of machine tools, the use of electric welding. The Church Lads Brigades learn how to fight fires and repair bomb damage. Others, given "the privilege of defending their homeland against invasion," march and train with oldsters in the Home Guard. More than a million youngsters are on call for national service. Thousands of others learn navigation, signaling and aircraft identification in eager preparation for enlistment at 18 in the services. Most popular service-training organization...