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Please note that we evacuees have been suffering shortages since last May. We mothers have been frankly worried about the vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
...Best new guess on the butter ration, due about May, was 13 lb. a year (¼ lb. a week), compared with normal peacetime consumption...
...Most feared man in the dairy-conscious Wisconsin Legislature is greying, voluble John E. Cashman, 79, who is against smoking, drinking, oleomargarine and foreigners. Two years ago he lambasted England as imperialistic, fought hard for U.S. isolation. Last week he asked his colleagues to memorialize Congress not to send butter-at least not good Wisconsin butter-to America's Allies, especially Russia. On second thought, he agreed that his hated oleomargarine would be all right for Russia...
Every time De Gaulle and Giraud had seemed on the point of agreeing on some form of cooperation, butter had got in the works. Latest blob of butter was the appointment by Giraud of Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria. In 1940 Peyrouton was a Minister in the Vichy government; before that he was Vichy Resident General in Tunisia; to General de Gaulle he was unpalatable...
...twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...