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...front window. Prices are inflated: in one showcase, a pair of secondhand children's trousers was marked 500 kwanzas, or roughly $40 at the official exchange rate. But very often merchants refuse even to sell what little they offer, for fear that they will not be able to restock their shelves...
...will begin pulling his thoughts together next month, striving to complete a 10-year excursion into the life and times of Thomas Hollis V. A member of the family for whom the yard dormitory is named, Hollis led a campaign to restock the Harvard Library after it was entirely destroyed in the famous Massachusetts Hall fire of 1764. Bond decided to track down as many books as possible from the Holliscollection, which over the centuries have become lost amidst the millions of volumes Harvard owns...
...recession and stockpiles of unsold goods swell, businessmen begin dumping their inventories and cutting back on orders from suppliers. In the process, layoffs surge throughout industry, and inventories grow skimpy. Then, when sales-hungry businessmen detect the first signs of an improving economy, they begin to rehire workers and restock warehouses. The level of inventories, thus, is usually a telltale signal of a recession or recovery...
...days to a week to prepare for nuclear attack. Evacuation plans have already been placed in telephone directories in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Austin, Marquette County, Mich., and Aroostoock County, Me. By next year, 38 million Americans will have similar instructions in their phone books. FEMA also plans to restock fallout shelters and eventually train 8,200 state and local workers for emergency duty. Says FEMA Director Louis Giuffrida: "The Administration proposes to take action in a moderate, orderly, responsible and inexpensive...
...Meanwhile, Charlie Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau, was traveling about the country, letting contracts for federal hospitals. He was generous with the taxpayers' money, paying inflated prices to grateful builders and then pocketing the difference. Forbes also liked to sell Government surplus goods cheap and then restock empty warehouses dear. The buyers, the sellers and Forbes all profited handsomely...