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Postwar comforts and alarm clocks scarce in wartime
The piece laments shortages of small comforts after war and the reluctance to wake to loud alarms. It notes Americans endure rationing, shared newspapers and tools, and the pull of gadgets like clocks, nylons, and fishing gear as daily life adapts. It pairs this with wartime fronts and German moves, plus rising women workers in California industry during May.
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Baltic States
le Kast
Prussian Lake
Vistula
Reich
Bug
Brest Litovsk
Kharkov
Kiev
Smolensk
Bialystok
Warsaw
East Prussia
DNB
Lwow
Stanislawow
Poland
Goebbels
Germany
Lolal
Oder
Berlin
Sacramento
Clifornia
Paul Scharrenhore
Olay
Gav
Har Warren
Scharvenberg