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...plan was a tax-consuming monster, violating the "American tradition" under which, they said, the soldier preferred to lie among members of his own family, in a graveyard in his own community, in ground consecrated according to the rites of his creed. The cemetery associations wanted Congress to allot families a set sum for private burials. Private cemeteries, they claimed, have enough vacant plots for 200 years...
...Americans to MacArthur's headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower, and not to be late for dinner. A sign on a factory roof, said: "Three...
...State Department's decision to allot 500,000 tons of petroleum to Argentina was no oil on troubled Pan-American waters...
...coaches for delivery early next year. For the first time since 1942, manufacturers were allowed to use stainless steel in passenger cars. But, like troop cars recently authorized, they will not arrive in time to ease this summer's travel crisis. WPB has consistently failed to allot the railroads as much steel as the Office of Defense Transportation estimated they would need; it looked as if that failure was coming home to roost...
...babies, the wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births...