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Forest Lawn also boasts a huge, earthquake-proof mausoleum inspired by Campo Santo in Genoa. Its Wee Kirk o' the Heather exactly reproduces the church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Its Little Church of the Flowers reproduces Stoke Poges, where Gray wrote his Elegy. At Forest Lawn, says the prospectus, "undertaking is combined with all forms of interment in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement for everything...
Meantime Argentina's surpluses piled up implacably: e.g., 80,000,000 bushels of flaxseed compared to last year's already catastrophic 50,000,000. In Buenos Aires, to conserve fuel, neon signs were doused, cinemas closed earlier, corn helped stoke locomotive and power-plant boilers. Autos & trucks were rationed; rationing was announced for tin plate, rubber, iron & steel, wood pulp, industrial chemicals. Newspapers' size was reduced. Tin-plate shortage caused a boom in glass and wood containers...
...their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
...days when no cars go at all. The average is probably not above 100 cars per day. Reasons: 1) a shortage of rolling stock (Germany, whose own rolling stock is in very bad condition, is extremely slow in returning Rumanian cars); 2) shortage of coal from Germany to stoke the engines; 3) sabotage and inefficiency along the 170-mile stretch of railroad from Oraseni, on the Rumanian border of old Poland, where Rumania hands over the oil, to Jaroslaw in German-occupied Poland. Pretty well confirmed last week was the fact that German troops, reported moving last fortnight into this...
...charter member of the TIME staff before he left college. At various times he has filled nearly every editorial post on TIME, had a hand in FORTUNE, LIFE, MARCH OF TIME (radio and newsreel). A keen golfer, fish erman, huntsman, he once made a hole in one at Stoke Poges. In 1937 he broke the North American record for tuna (821 Ib.) off the Nova Scotian coast in a storm. General Manpower was written shortly afterwards, between ducks and woodcock, on a ten-month sabbatical...