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Meat rationing ended in Canada last week. Surprisingly, there was no rush for butcher shops, no frenzied buying. In some cities, meat sales actually fell off. Canadians who did buy mostly wanted ham and bacon, the meats on which restrictions had been tightest...
...part of war as death & taxes. Fifty million men in the world have left the fields and factories to fight, but still the U.S. stoutly held to the fiction that a high standard of diet can be preserved in wartime. Restaurants served juicy steaks and thick lamb chops; butcher shops were well stocked with pork roasts; the egg market groaned under such a flood of eggs that the War Food Administration, to support the price, bought eggs by the carload...
...really get substantial food for my wife and children. About three weeks ago my wife said: 'Well, Dad, I went to the butcher and look what I bought for $3.45.' Well, I looked at it, and this is what was there: About a pound and a quarter of a cutlet, about a pound of chop meat, and a little piece of pork which we would say after you trim the fat off it, if it comes to a snowball you have a lot of meat. Now that dinner had to last us Saturday and Sunday for a family...
...think it runs to 35? a pound. So if you buy a little piece for your Sunday dinner, it costs about 15?, and I tell you it is no bigger than this little ball (he held up a small flash bulb). Fifteen cents or maybe 20, whatever the butcher charges. That is what you get when he puts it on the scale and that is the conditions in our department, gentlemen...
Sergeant Camille Gagnon, a French-Canadian ex-butcher, lay for 14 hours on the frozen ground, between counterattacking Germans and his comrades on a newly taken hill. His warnings enabled the Canadians to repulse a dozen counterattacks. Then the Germans brought an 88-mm. field gun to bear on Gagnon. Feeling safe, the Germans attacked the hill again. Gagnon, still whole, shouted another warning. The Germans quit trying...