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...sharp reputation for circumventing the restrictions of the Allied Control Commissions. His own politics were opportunistic. Democracy, he said, "is a luxury that might be borne, perhaps, in prosperous periods." He backed Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg and his fascist Home Guard, bet on Dollfuss and Mussolini to stave off Hitler. In 1937 he saw the handwriting on the wall, deftly transferred his holdings abroad...
...Causes. Why had liberation and victory brought a crisis in food which the Germans had managed to stave off? There were many reasons. The Germans had managed European agriculture as a whole, introduced some improved methods, distributed food with a harsh, discriminatory-but efficient-hand. Even so, by D-day European food production was already running down for lack of phosphates, tractors, fuel, transport, manpower. After D-day disorganization mounted, European transport disintegrated, the German armies took horses to save fuel, and greatly reduced the working power of European farmers...
...world was mounting to a climax and a breaking point. Germany's legendary Rhine barrier was forced in five growing bridgeheads; a storm of steel and fire was building up in the East. Defeat was staring Germany in the face, and the Germans had nothing with which to stave...
...beldams of yesteryear who gave onions and garlic to stave off typhus, let pennies grow green in the cellar for use on cuts, and put moldy bread on wounds had the right idea, though their practice was often fatal. For, some of their remedies contained antibiotics,* the natural bacteria-fighting substances produced by living organisms...
Thus, the supply of sugar for civilians in the first ten months of 1944 was reduced to 6,650,000 tons. But civilians swallowed 5,973,000 tons, biting deeply into reserves. Now, reserves are down to 677,000 tons, lowest on record. OPA still hopes to stave off tighter rationing of civilians. But if the cut to industrial users does not save enough sugar, OPA will have to balance its books by either: 1) invalidating all sugar stamps up to a certain date; or 2) reducing the value of stamps which become good henceforth...