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...other side of the world Japan's only ally, Nazi Germany, was crumbling to final ruin. Her potential new enemy, Soviet Russia, stood huge and menacing on the Manchurian border. She was virtually cut off from the rubber, oil, tin and foodstuffs of the South Seas. She had lost more than 1,800 merchant ships. In the mathematics of war, if not on last week's calendar, Japan was close to defeat...
...sophistication. But he is always serviceable, often scintillating. He gets more meaning, character and humanity into his book-writing than most of his rivals. One reason may be that many of his librettos were discerningly adapted from fairly full-blooded material. Another likely reason: Hammerstein lacks the typical Tin Pan Alley taste and the blatantly Broadway mind. He is ruefully conscious that the librettist is the whipping boy of musicomedy, the first to be blamed for a failure, the last to get credit for a success. In musicomedy, however, the whipping boy's wages are a fair compensation. Hammerstein...
...short, WPB will take its hands off a big chunk of U.S. industry, free enough materials so that it can make what it wants. Only on scarce materials, such as rubber, tin, textiles and lumber, will WPB keep a tight hold...
Silently the opium gatherers moved among the flowers, sometimes hidden from sight among the rows of corn. With knives and razors they slashed a "V" in the egg-shaped fruit over the big poppy petals, tapped out drops of white slime into tin cans and paper sacks. If they could slip past the soldiers, they could sell the stiffened slime, crude opium gum, to gun-toting dealers. The rewards were great; and it was certainly easier than raising tomatoes, which spoiled on the burros' backs on the long trails to market...
...announced that the empire would be sweepingly reorganized as "the French Union." Most likely, it would become federal in structure, with representative governments for its components and a representative Federal Assembly of the Union. Specifically, the Government had assured Indo-China, one of the empire's richest colonies (tin, rubber, rice, strategic bases) that it would have democratic and equalitarian liberty, including "ministers chosen from among the Indo-Chinese [23,000,000] as well as from French residents...