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...these plants would be operating for at least seven months. In the meantime, WPB planned to take facilities out of civilian production. This would hurt. Much of the fat was gone from the civilian cupboard. For example, the hoard of new passenger cars (530,000 in 1942) was below 15,000. After three years of war, civilians might finally be pinched hard...
...H.G.s might go back to their umbrellas and bowlers, but the tunics and tin hats would always be hanging in the cupboard, just in case...
...tickets at home. Recalling that a neighbor was planning to come to town, the farmer got KFBB to ask the neighbor to go to the farmer's house, enter by way of a loose kitchen screen, and get the tickets out of the blue sugar bowl in the cupboard...
...Then one of the bombed-outs got influenza. Someone began sneaking food from the cupboard. Then after the mid-December raid the water supply went bad and my visitors began to smell. They may have remarked the same about me. During the same raid a brother of one of my visitors was bombed out, and came around to move into my house. The new arrivals smelled even before they arrived...
...pasted it up in a kitchen cupboard to help take my mind off the dishwashing. Now we have a friend who covets that picture. He laughs over it every time he comes into my kitchen, and says "What'll you take for it?" I won't let him have...