Word: subsistance
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Given all the breaks, the Allied Control Council would have to blueprint a miracle. By decree of the Big Three at Potsdam, the Council must destroy Germany's war potential without destroying her ability to subsist. It must select and encourage industries which do not make a war potential (in the long run, most industries do). It must calculate a minimum economy for Germany, and take steps to hold Germany to that minimum...
...bodied male Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
This wrecking process had two objectives: 1) to put a long-term strain on Italy's resources; 2) to hamper the enemy's efforts to amass sufficient reserves of food, munitions and transport for the defense of the islands which cannot long subsist on their own resources...
...radio, that the kernel of legitimate complaint in Petrillo's truckload of hot air lies. Ironically, the legal reasoning that prevents such returns, by declaring that companies have no post-sale control over records, is the same that will now prevent all new recordings when Petrillo's ruling that subsist on canned music. But the answer does not lie in dictatorial unionism and Petrillo's tactless tactics. These things and what they stand for must soon go the way of their big business counterparts...
Like mad Nebuchadnezzar, who sheeplike browsed Babylon's pastures, U.S. parachute troops and other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass. At least, Biochemist Gustav J. Martin of New York thinks so. But, as he told the American Chemical Society in Memphis last week, soldiers' guts first have to be conditioned to this allfours diet, by getting certain harmless bacteria domiciled among the trillions of other bacteria normally present in the human intestine...