Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service. In West Hartford, Conn. Eddie Jordan, picked up by police for not carrying his draft card, telephoned his wife, who hurried over with the card and a just-received order to report for induction...
...Getaway. One day the struggle to sustain morale got too much for Hélion. From the ship's black market, where a few intrepid souls stole, bought and sold civilian garments for purposes of escape, Hélion bought a complete outfit. He obtained the forged leave-card and passport of a Belgian worker which were to take him successfully all the way across Germany into then unoccupied France...
Said Chairman Seip: "Lewis certainly couldn't have driven that distance on an A card, and a visit to his mother certainly could not be classified as essential driving...
Midwestern motorists (see cut) had their A-card rations squeezed from four gallons to three this week, but no quick relief came to Eastern motorists. Instead, OPA General Manager Chester Bowles told Easterners they'd have to be good for another two weeks, until reserves are built up. Then there might be two more quarts a week for their gas tanks...
Private Robert Martin took a card out of his pocket and showed it to me. It was a birthday greeting from his wife, and it read: "Birthday greetings to my better half. What sunshine means to flowers, what leaves mean to a tree, what springtime means to songbirds. ..." Hrumph! hrumph! hrumph! the bombs fell, and I ducked, and then looked up and read the last line of the greeting: "That's what you mean to me." "Songbirds, huh?" said Martin, looking up into...