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...year's level; gasoline stocks are at an alltime high. Refiners in Oklahoma and Texas have been forced to cut crude prices, and pressure is building up for a further slash in Oklahoma allowables. Domestic producers blame the situation on heavy imports, but importers are complaining that their quotas under the Government's voluntary-import quota program are not high enough to enable them to operate efficiently. While imports of petroleum and oil products reached a record high of 1,897,500 bbl. at latest report, the Government did not consider the weekly figures significant, since they often...
...exact and complete translation of your admirable story was published in Vatan. We received it in a cable of 5,200 words-quite a record for a Turkish daily-and published it in two parts (on account of a frozen quota of newsprint). There was an enormous demand for copies, so we had to publish the whole story again, adding your cover and the pictures after TIME itself arrived. The objective review of the personality of Menderes made a deep impression on the public here, and caused widespread discussions...
...when they're sure you're not an unctuous agitator for Prospect Club, they are willing to talk to you freely, gather, gather around and tell you calmly about the first fight at the meeting when Court Club decided to cut its Jewish quota in half because an unintentional influx one year was causing its prestige to flag; about what an ICC president told one of them privately and with a certain sadness one day, that "anti-Semitism in the clubs is something that can neither be exposed, nor proved, nor cured"; about the tacit and explicit demands of club...
...contracts. Most painters insist on using brushes where sprayers would do the job a lot faster. Carpenters resist prefabricated panels, and in some places panels fastened together at the factory are actually taken apart at the building site and nailed together again. Some locals lay down a maximum daily quota of bricks, studs or square feet of surface for bricklayers, carpenters, painters. Specialization is carried to the point where a contractor on a small job may have to hire one pipe fitter to lay the pipe out and another to join...
...preservation is so strong that he is prepared to outdo his masters in brutality. Carefully he explains to his new young "adjutant" that though all the Jews will reach Auschwitz in the end, the disposition crew will be the last to go. Each week a train leaves with its quota of victims. To postpone their fate a week, people are willing to pay huge sums. Women pay with their bodies, and Siegfried Cohn grandly takes his pick. Young Henriques catches on fast. Soon he is spying on the prisoners. He sees his own mother packed aboard, though he does manage...