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This was no mere war philanthropy. Liberated North and West Africa are rich in palm oils, some foodstuffs, but short of cloth and other manufactured goods. Here the U.S. may trade resources. Across the Mediterranean, unliberated Italy is hungry, war-weary. Here the promise of food and a peace with security might help open a beach head for Allied occupation. Around the world, as the Axis conquerors are rolled back, the plan is to supply every nation with its needs, toward an economic stability more permanent than the ruins of the peace that followed World...
Winston Churchill reached for a towel after shaving. There was no towel. On board a British destroyer in the North Sea, his face and fingers dripping, he fumbled about in a linen closet in the captain's cabin and dried his face with the first available cloth. It turned out to be a British ensign, and is now hanging in C-33, Kirkland House, in the room of David E. Mann...
Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...
...cloth contributed will be converted into much needed "wastes," used in cleaning machinery. To the U.S.O. will go all money which is realized from the sale of old or broken records collected in the drive...
From these brief maxims young Washington was clearly a fussy eater. "Spit [not] forth the Stones of any fruit Pye," he warned. "Cleanse not your Teeth with the Table Cloth." Washington also barred spitting during meals ("except there's a Necessity for it") and getting rid of edibles by throwing them under the table...