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Squirrely Speakeasy. In Hillsdale, Mich., Charles Wakeman explained why he keeps hickory nuts beside his bed. He feeds them to two squirrels that scratch at his window every midnight...
...exports? Prewar Russian exports, averaging only about 2.5% of Russia's total production, would not even begin to pay the service charges on a $7 billion loan. But those were Russia's exports during the period when she was building her industrial plant from scratch. Over a 30-year period, Russian exports could undoubtedly expand. Best guess in Washington for Russian exports to all countries in the first five postwar years: half a billion yearly. The U.S., which never took 5% of Russian exports, might in future get as much as 40%, or $200 million worth of coal...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...
...first issue succeeded surprisingly well, though cattlemen may scratch their heads over such lines as: "It was that they were there that held distances off"; and Londoners will probably be unmoved by the fact that the Owl Drug Store in Phoenix now stands where the Central Methodist Church used to. But both Londoner and cattleman should enjoy Neil E. Cook's recollections of embracing a girl in a steel-stayed corset: "like putting your arm around a bunch of lath...
...Kimmel's staff, and the scratch staff which had served Pye during the last days of December. In particular, Nimitz had to appraise balding Captain Charles H. ("Sock") McMorris, Kimmel's war plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise Pearl Harbor. In BuNav, Nimitz had seemed a hard executive, despite his amiable manner. He had found the Bureau slack, and had made it taut. The officers whose careers had seemed blasted by Jap bombs and torpedoes expected Nimitz to sweep them all out to some naval Siberia...