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...titanic misery, which would easily dwarf even the biggest achievement, UNRRA has achieved a great deal. It has helped feed, clothe and repatriate some 5,000,000 of 6,500,000 D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair...
...wife was referred to as 'Lemonade Lucy'?" (Ans.: Mrs. James K. Polk) . . . "Where can I get the only two recordings made by Olga Alvino?" (Ans.: They're on one disk, Victor 22313, which is no longer in circulation-so you have to prowl among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French measure to get the American size.) . . . "What is a kangaroo's pouch lined with?" (When we checked the Bronx Zoo on that...
World War II has brought a spate of innovations, ranging from the G.I.-adopted Shangri-La (designating a comfort-station in the South Seas) to the experienced tires hopefully advertised by second-hand automobile dealers. Only in the field of creative swearing, concludes Author Mencken, has American verbal fecundity sunk as low as Britain...
Last week it seemed that Trollope was making a popular comeback in the U.S. too. "I am asked for 'anything by Trollope' five times a day," reported the owner of one of Manhattan's largest second-hand bookshops. The San Francisco Public Library reported Trollope withdrawals to be 76% greater than last year. Boston booksellers "simply can't supply the demand...
...Horn, Congress voted to pay off the last of the Sioux claims. Last week the President solemnly signed a bill granting them $101,630 ($91,920 for ponies, $9,710 for property lost in the scuffle). Nobody suggested restoring the Sioux to mobility by replacing the horses with second-hand jeeps...