Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin returned to Chungking last week from a tour of the stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all remnants of food in their homes, eat their last meal and then commit suicide. While the Bishop was visiting one village, a farmer gathered his family round him, fed them their last full meal and then told them he had poisoned the food they had just eaten...
...nighttime missionaries rove the roads picking up waifs. They are afraid to collect children publicly for fear of increasing the abandonment of children on mission doorsteps. Other missionaries report an alarming increase of armed assaults on roads as hunger-mad peasants seek food. Farmers are starting to kill farm animals for meat...
Four agencies have quibbled on the why and wherefores of still production. The WPB, the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, the OPA, and since August, War Materials, Inc., a division of the RFC, have all dabbled, with resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap--regardless of cost--the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., a division of the RFC, have all dabbled, with resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap-regardless of cost-the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., adds administrative problems to the already crowded field. Lacking the power to condemn needed items as well as the jurisdiction over...
Meanwhile the shipyard's chief doctor has had a nervous breakdown, another doctor has been fired. The 19 maimed workmen will probably collect at least $165,000 in disability compensation. Their X-ray burns, though they may seem to be cured, may break out again any time as long as the men live...
With steel mills (which in their own operations produce about half of the scrap they use) using up purchased scrap at the record rate of two and a quarter million tons a month, the Government is trying desperately to collect 17,000,000 tons to keep them going through the winter (when scrap collection lags because of the weather...