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Nevertheless, more than 3,500 copies a month are smuggled into East Germany. One German couple, sent to a Red prison after the Communists discovered copies of the magazine in their East zone apartment, made straight for Der Monat's office to replenish their confiscated copies after they escaped...
While all Chile watched for a week, 140 politicos poured into Coihueco to electioneer. The supply of fowl for the favorite local dish, cazuela de pava (turkey casserole), quickly ran out. and the wineshop had to replenish its stocks three times. The two spinsters who own Coihueco's only telephone took to their beds with aspirin, while reporters endlessly cranked the phone's old-style bell magneto. Business boomed. "Ah, to have elections every month!" said the merchants...
...reading period they are quite dog-cared, with many sections either missing or mutilated beyond recognition. Added to normal handling damage is the rudeness of the minority who rip out exams for further study. Since the library receives only a limited number of copies, it cannot replenish the stock. So, near the end of reading period, it is almost impossible to find examinations in popular courses...
...much food as is produced today. "It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression." When arithmetic finally loses to geometry, human increase must stop. Most babies that are born will die from the ills of malnutrition before they manage further to replenish the earth...
...start on a 143-wing Air Force; the Army gets 31% to build to 21 divisions; the Navy 24% for a fleet of 408 combatant ships, 16 carrier air groups and a three-division Marine Corps. But even these expenditures, the President implies, will not fully replenish the war reserves of the U.S. expended in Korea and arms aid to U.S. allies...