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About 650 Japanese were killed, 800 injured; 6,800 homes were destroyed, 11,000 damaged, 24,000 flooded; 2,100 vessels were wrecked. Among the villages hit; Usa, famed for its prewar exports of Christmas toys stamped "Made in U.S.A...
Alcoholic History. Le New York, as Frenchmen had called the prewar Herald Tribune, was always better to read about than to read. Its roster of alumni scans like a Who's Who of U.S. journalists abroad. The staff was an odd mixture of serious newsmen who liked to work in Paris and assorted spirits working briefly and indifferently for a grubstake. In the years between wars, young reporters jumped at the ill-paid chance to make the Herald part of their journalistic and alcoholic history...
Even with the reductions, many fur prices are still well above prewar prices. Fur men, however, could not quite believe what seemed to be happening in their $500,000,000 industry. They looked around for hidden villains, seemed to think price-cutting the cause of their troubles rather than the result. Said the Fur Trade Review: "We cannot help but wonder whether [stores] have exercised the best wisdom in cutting prices...
...only one foreman for each 100 workers (v. one for 20 workers before unionization). Thanks to war orders - and lately expansion into new products - the dollar volume per worker (1,600) has tripled. The gross will be about $12,000,000 this year, v. $2,500,000 prewar...
...Terrace. In Batavia last week some of the old, prewar hallmarks of empire were still present. The tuan besar (Dutch for pukka sahibs) sat in their white linen suits and drank fiery Bols gin on the terrace of the Harmonie Club. Every now & then in the evening their talk was disturbed by a bullet whizzing by from the lines outside the city...