Word: v-day
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...V-Day Blowoff...
...nation's department stores got ready for V-day; many sent directives to their personnel on how to behave. Most called for closing the store, removing merchandise from show windows, boarding up the windows. Employes of Milwaukee's famed Boston Store got the curtest note: "Finish waiting on your customer; then get out and celebrate...
Lloyds of London offered 5-to-8 that V-day would come by Oct. 31. Americans even began to think of Paris again as something real. Some day soon Americans would be going there again...
Battlefields or no battlefields, the time to start the first trickle of reconversion was already past. Ever since the 1942 victory at Midway, Washington desks had bulged with reconversion plans. Now, with V-day much nearer, the plans were still in the desks...
...world of V-Day is no richer in applied wisdom than the world of M-Day, this further calculation can be made. There will be no way except charity to put Europe quickly back on its feet again. International charity must inevitably soon run thin. When the U.S., for one, ceases to give goods away it will suffer from unemployment, despite and because of its vastly expanded productive capacity. Moreover, European and Asiatic collapse will be on a far greater scale than they were when U.S. relief and financial first aid dried up in the early...