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World War II halted her plans for a third attempt to bring Adolf home. She did not hear from him for five years. But she saved her money, and when she finally got a letter from him, after V-E day, she was ready...
...stopped his correspondence, but after V-E day he began to hear again from his friends. "They had nothing but paper, paper, and more paper-they even wrapped the babies in paper." One woman wrote that she "had nothing left to fix and nothing to fix it with." McAllister began to do what he could...
...gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were married (he for the third time, she for the second...
Europeans find little to cheer about. Thirty-four months after V-E day, recovery has come so slowly-so much hope has been deferred-that few can bring themselves to say they feel better off (though engaged couples, newlyweds, and young lawyers busy with their first cases nearly always do say so). In Sweden, in Switzerland and in Italy most say that their condition is "the same." In Britain, France and the U.S. Zone of Germany, most say "worse...
...this is the longest upward movement ever known. Why shouldn't it be? It has also covered by far the largest war in history. Is it really conceivable that all the damage and dislocation caused by the war could be put right in less than three years from V-E...