Sowerbutt's Shortages

Brendan Bracken paced the apartment at the Victoria Hotel in Newmarket.  Among the papers just delivered by dispatch rider were the latest sinkings in the Atlantic by U-boats. Britain was heading for starvation and industry would run out of raw materials if the rate continued.
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