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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just above Dubuque, the Coast Guard's Del Commune ran into real trouble last week. The Mississippi's Dam No. 11 was frozen tight; the little towboat had to stand by for five hours while men thawed out the valves with hot water, cut away 20-inch slabs of ice from behind the gates, finally nursed them open. Then the Del Commune moved upstream through the locks-into an icefield that stretched from bank to bank as far as the eye could...
...Del Commune's men looked at the ice, at each other, at the 85-ton ice plow attached to their boat's blunt bow. Their job, if they could do it, was to clear the Mississippi's channel so that oil barges could get to Minneapolis by the first week in April, two weeks before shipments had ever gone through before. Behind them, in St. Louis, the barges waited. Ahead, in Minneapolis, war factories waited for the oil. But the ice was thick, the weather still bitter cold, the Mississippi stubborn...
...Del Monte's ad urging Americans to grow Victory Gardens. The woman in the ad is rolling up her sleeves and saying: "I'm going to have more fruits & vegetables than my ration book allows. . . . And I'm going to do it the patriotic way." Heinz on point rationing: one ad, entitled "Food Buying Simplified!", offered an educational rationing budget form...
...wooden water gates and the interlocking channels of the 2,200-year-old irrigation system, installed a few years after Alexander invaded India, are still working this month. In Argentina on these hot midsummer days the crowds from Buenos Aires are swarming to the playground of Mar del Plata, to gamble in the biggest casino in the world. The earth that has been carrying war around the sun has carried as well the work and the relaxations, the moviegoing, horse racing, kiteflying, card-playing, visiting, talking, worshiping life...
Traducción figurada de la letra del Himno Americano...