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...Most pickets were as polite as they could be as 534 of their fellow teachers walked through the lines. At first, in the biggest teachers' strike in U.S. history, most of Buffalo's 72,000 public-school pupils had no classes, and the rest had only the barest instruction. Then the Mayor decided to close all the schools (before the joyful students wrecked them) and the nonstriking teachers stayed at home...
Whenever one of the athletically minded public relations men can get you alone, provided you show even the barest courtesy, he'll yammer at you for as long as you'll let him on what a great team he has coming up this fall. As early in the year as July, he's ready to tell you about the men who are going to run ring around all comers in October and November...
...spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even the railroads could get their barest needs: the Office of Defense Transportation request for 1.5 million tons of steel for badly needed new cars and rail was cut by one-third...
Food and Shelter. Life is primitive on Saipan. The shipping shortage and the necessity of supplying battles farther west permit only the barest necessities (even for Saipan's American conquerors, who still eat out of cans). For the captive civilians the only cover is what can be built out of weathered planks, battered sheet tin from the bomb-shattered sugar refinery, and tattered tenting...
...more Russians came, Russians who had been fighting Germans and Rumanians from Bessarabia to Stalingrad and back again. They came to a country rich in everything they had done without for more than three years. They came with only the barest minimum of supplies. They started requisitioning. Some started looting. Some got drunk and started taking women. For a while the Red Army went on something like a spree...