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Officers' enthusiasms: the amazing antiquity of local sights, the British greener-than-green landscape, outsize flowers, quaint and lovely villages, thick woolen blankets, polite policemen. Their chief beefs: "It's not home," warm beer, lack of transportation, too much rain...
...surf was deep. A Navy-borne British Commando eased up to the coast of northern France. From the dunes between Boulogne and Le Touquet, where vacationing Britons used to loll, Nazi searchlights fingered the Channel. But none found the Commando's barges until the last man in shorts, woolen cap and blackened face had waded ashore...
Like Tinkham, Rich faced a redistricting problem and a tough race, bowed out of his own accord. Rich, too, will move back to his birthplace, the bustling mill-town of Woolrich, Pa., where, as general manager and treasurer of the Woolrich Woolen Mills, he is Citizen No.1...
...spite of the unprecedented tax drain, the U.S. went on an Easter shopping spree. Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
Allied Chemical $13.67 $1.35 $9.67 American Locomotive 5.33 1.30 4.12 American Woolen 30.50 5.00 11.23 Corn Products 3.59 0.95 3.38 Crane Co. 5.36 1.70 1.18 Douglas Aircraft 36.22 3.00 30.29 Goodrich Co. 8.29 4.60 5.02 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 12.80 3.40 4.68 Mack Truck 9.21 1.67 4.93 Montgomery Ward 5.11 0.96 4.01 National Cash Register 1.02 0.74 2.00 National Dairy 1.43 0.57 1.97 Sears Roebuck 9.62 1.17 6.35 United Aircraft 23.29 1.88 6.29 United Fruit 2.22 1.03 4.25 United States Steel...