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...foreign trade, the Nazis developed a "system of living on their debts." South Africa sent Germany its wool clip for three years before realizing the locomotives, etc. promised in payment were never going to arrive...
...rationing order was put into effect to make sure that Britain's scant supply of clothing, footwear, cloth and knitting wool would be distributed as evenly as possible. Under the scheme everyone will get 66 clothes coupons a year, must surrender some with each purchase he makes. A man's suit will take 26 coupons, a woman's dress 11, shirts 5, pajamas 8, galoshes (adult) 4, bathing suit (adult) 4, silk stockings 2. Bombees will get extra coupons...
Last week London sources said that heavy French shipments including oil, rubber, lead, wool and foodstuffs have been moving from U.S. Gulf ports into Nazi hands. The goods have been shipped to Martinique, thence to Dakar or Casablanca on the West African coast, thence to North African ports, thence (running the British blockade) to Marseille. The British Government announced last week that it had obtained copies of an order by Admiral Darlan to French merchant captains to scuttle their ships rather than submit to British capture-the order including descriptions of the best German-tested scuttling methods...
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...figurines recently acquired by the Museum through the generosity of an anonymous donor. The pieces date mostly from the Nazca period of around 1000 A.D., but there are also objects from other periods, including a polychrome vessel from the Parcas culture of 500 A.D. and a much later wool bag coming from the Inca culture and dating from about...