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...opera-lovers remember Singer Flagstad with reverence and affection as the greatest Isolde since Nordica. She returned to Norway in April 1941 for a summer's visit, then broke a two-month silence to announce that she would remain there until the war ended. More silence followed, punctuated only by rumors-that the Norwegian Brünnhilde, who likes good food & drink, was enjoying plenty of both in heavily rationed Norway; that she was a popular guest at quisling parties; that en route to Norway she had stopped in Berlin, described Nazi Germany as "a lovely place...
When WPB blacked out the auto industry after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had only about 500,000 new cars on hand, a two-month peacetime supply. This looked like the tightest shortage of all, so OPA stopped all sales for January and February, allowed only 40,000 cars for each of the next three months. But last week OPA released the April sales figures and proved an astounding fact: even if new cars were twice as hard to get, there would be no serious shortage except, of all places, in Detroit, where new-rich defense workers boosted sales over...
...argued that a sales tax was perhaps the most powerfully effective way to cut down the big new bulk of inflationary purchasing power. Shelved for a month at least was the plan for enforced savings: for one thing, Congress wants to get back home pretty soon for a two-month vacation and political fence-mending...
Catherine Littlefield had to cancel a two-month ballet tour because she had chosen "big, brawny and masculine" dancers for the troupe. The armed forces and war industries got eight of them...
...London's Big Ben boomed midnight on September's last day, marking the city's two-month holiday from raid warnings, German planes made their fiercest onslaught of many weeks on other British cities...