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Hospitable Australians saw to it that the U.S. Davis Cup training table was filled with pitchers of milk-which is scarce in Melbourne-and T-bone steaks, which are scarcer. U.S. players got so many party invitations that they finally turned them all down. Jack Kramer got word that he had become a father-and was allowed one beer to celebrate...
...eyes were "like the clear summer sky," her name was Serafima, which means "angel," and she lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain...
...intelligence the trumpeters were fair, but at reproduction they were sluggish. They grew scarcer & scarcer until, in 1935, there were only 73. They no longer wintered in southern feeding grounds, but huddled, half-starving, on spring-warmed patches of open water in Rocky Mountain lakes...
...ration: eight ounces). Because imports of fodder were reduced, there would soon be less bacon, less poultry, fewer shell eggs (present average: 2½ eggs per person a month). Bread might again be rationed too. "Not one grain more" of barley would go to the distillers; whiskey would be scarcer than ever, and Sir Ben was "sorry about that...
...harried retailer summed up: "My clerks feel like keepers at the zoo with no food for the animals at feeding time." AH over the U.S., underwear, men's suits and shirts and women's stockings were scarcer than ever before. Stores brave enough to advertise a small shipment of any of the precious items warned customers that they shopped at their own risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), occasionally had to call police to quell riots...