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...time and the war went on, money and food became scarcer. At one time Audrey's family had nothing to eat for days but endive. "I swore I'd never eat it again as long as I lived," she says. The hungry days in Holland gave her a taste for rich pastries and chocolate that is still unsatisfied...
...months, meat has been getting scarcer and prices higher in the Great Republic of Beef. Last week grumbling had grown too loud to be ignored any longer. With a great show of surprised innocence, Juan Perón burst into speech. He had no idea of what was going on, said he, until his labor leaders (all handpicked) had told him. "The workers have put a knife against my belly-and they are fully justified." Who was to blame? Not Perón or the labor leaders, of course, but cattle barons and butchers...
...Communist Echo grumbled that "not even State [haberdashers] can conceal sleeves of different lengths, bursting seams, ill-fitting collars, missing buttons." Polish children go hungry. The potato supply, wrote Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu last month, is only 40% of the quota; since then, spuds have become even scarcer...
...year-old Patrice singing coloratura arpeggios in a voice as full of rills as a country brook, and lustily topping off high Fs. It was not the greatest voice he had ever heard, but coloraturas were scarce, particularly with Lily Pons, the Met's coloratura queen, making herself scarcer on wartime tours. Hurok went to see Patrice, and liked what he saw-a confident, warm-eyed girl with black, wavy hair and a brilliant smile...
...basic raw materials needed for defense, none is more vital than copper-and none is scarcer. Into every B-47 bomber goes a ton of copper; even a 155-mm. howitzer takes more than half a ton of the red metal and its alloys. The U.S. is the world's biggest producer (960,000tons or 40% of all output), but its crude production is lower now than it was eight years ago. It is also the biggest copper importer, but imports are dropping. Last week the Government took two big steps to boost production...