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...equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap of most of China's radiators and Nanking electric power is so rationed that electric heaters we brought with us from the States are useless. I might add, incidentally, that there is no cooking gas here; all food is prepared over wood or coal-dust-cake fires. Our lease...
...steel, the price barometer for the bulk of mass production, there was no rise, despite a $5-per-ton jump in scrap prices. On the basis of nine months' profits and this quarter's operations (90% of capacity), most steel companies could easily absorb the scrap increase, and will probably absorb other small cost increases as well...
...plan of empire. He never doubted the final Tightness of empire; he merely doubted the Company's interpretation ... of Divinity's intentions. . . . He dreamed of a great British Empire in the Indies, with Java as the center"-and his French and Dutch enemies never gave him a scrap of the trouble that he met with at the hands of his businesslike, unromantic employers in London...
With Clementine, Director Ford has accomplished more than an intelligent retelling of a hoary yarn. His camera sometimes pauses, with a fresh, childlike curiosity, to examine the shape and texture of a face, a pair of square-dancing feet, a scrap of desert landscape or a sunlit dusty road. The leisurely lens-a trick Europeans frequently overdo and Hollywood seldom attempts-makes some of Ford's black-&-white sequences as richly lifelike as anything ever trapped in Technicolor...
Rival Hunters. When the Americans and British entered Germany, they had special teams ready to pounce on any likely-looking technician, piece of apparatus, scrap of paper. These teams, mostly directed by FIAT (Field Information Agency, Technical), were considerably better organized than the Russian brain-hunters. The U.S. had no immediate need of atomic help, since it was already pointing for Hiroshima, but it wanted to keep German atom workers away from the Reds. The U.S. did want help with rockets and guided missiles...