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...only to forget the things they did or knew. A very large percentage of the Germans, perhaps even a majority "never did like the son of a bitch, and always said he'd get us into a war," and real Nazis were so scarce that the author had to scour the whole of Berlin in order to uncover...
...most part, Smithsonian scientists stuck to "description," that amiable super-hobby which leads learned men to scour the earth for rarities. Working always on a shoestring, they explored the West, dug up dinosaurs, collected insects, mollusks, birds, minerals...
...could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
Circus Ring. The dealers now scour the nation for cars, literally hunting in packs. From the gas-short East, cars are being sucked to farm and war centers in the Middle and Far West. A business that often smacked of the medicine show has skidded into the circus ring. In New York, the backlog of cars, stored by owners who now ride subways, is still great. There, cars are bought on sight, over the phone, by mail. In big splashy ads, out-of-town dealers scream of amazing prices. One dealer even tooted his horn in Chinese...
Others were not so fortunate. Axis U-boats still scour the central Atlantic in packs, trying to break up Allied convoys en route to North Africa. North American coastal waters several hundred miles out have been cleared of subs, except for an occasional lone scout. But in the old North Atlantic graveyard, convoys to Russia and Britain suffer systematic and heavy attacks. Sixty-seven sinkings reported last week brought the war total up to 3,801 ships sunk, of which 2,029 were Allied ships. So far, 63,154 seamen of all nations have been killed or are missing...