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...tons before June 30. For the first ten days of May the U.S. had paced itself for 333,000 tons, only 105,000 tons had actually sailed from U.S. ports. And never before had the per capita food consumption of U.S. civilians been higher: 14% above prewar years...
...Communists, who won 3.35% of the votes in the last prewar election (1937), got 10.57% last week. In Amsterdam, 30% of the vote was Communist...
...prewar Dutch election was usually a cut-&-dried affair; the Catholics voted for the Catholic party, the Protestants voted for one of the two big Protestant parties, minor groups shared scattered votes, and that was that...
...backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England has anything to fear from the Nazis...
...staying open at all hours and paying less wages, the independents were undercutting. It was the union's bounden duty, said Cowboy Hoffa, to remedy this inequity. The union had suffered too: only 150 union men were hauling goods from wholesaler to retailer as compared to a prewar total of 550. Was this fair to the returned veteran? Finally Hoffa held out a handful of alfalfa. Store owners would not be asked to join, just their employes...