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...laugh less. Nearly everybody has a member of his immediate family wounded or killed. The war is followed closely and intently by families scrutinizing the great colored wall maps which hang everywhere. I searched Moscow for a week for a map and finally found a store that expected a shipment in the morning. The map is not good but sold out a thousand in a few hours...
Uneasiness grew in Chungking with each new shipment of fresh Chinese bank notes from the U.S. As the big transports from over the Hump brought ton after ton of baled currency, the people who understood took quiet steps and the ones who only sensed something strange became cautious...
William S. Paley, elegant-dressing president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was ready for shipment overseas to join OWI's psychological warfare crews in the Mediterranean area. Off & on for a week he had been doing muscle building, studying pamphleteering, intelligence gathering, short-wave receiving at the indoctrination school on the vast Marshall Field estate on Long Island. Cartier, the dazzling Manhattan jewelry firm, had finished...
...Epaphroditus Peck, export salesman for Chauncey Jerome, another pioneering clockmaker, taught the English an early lesson in Yankee underselling. British customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark...
...last week this useful packaging discovery had become a prime aid in the shipment of U.S. equipment, from airplanes to bomb sights, all over the world. The process, which has big postwar possibilities, was exhibited at an ordnance show in Philadelphia. The nub of the matter is a substance called silica...