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...railroad stations in every major U.S. city last week were jampacked with Americans on the go. People stood three deep at the hurry-up depot lunch counters, waited vainly for taxicabs, lugged their own heavy baggage because there weren't enough redcaps. Men in open-necked sport shirts, women in print dresses stood literally for hours in ticket lines. Squads of boys & girls, bound for summer camps, assembled beneath signs marked "Camp Hiawatha" or "Treasure Trove...
There was discrimination at every turn. Negro troops being shipped through El Paso, Texas, were barred from the Harvey House restaurant at the depot and given cold handouts. They could see German prisoners of war seated in the restaurant and fed hot food...
Penicillin made news and progress again last week. During July the 2,000 U.S. depot hospitals which distribute penicillin (TIME, May 22) will get 20% more than they did in June, WPB announced...
...necessities of war mother many an ingenious idea. At the height of the U-boat campaign, the office of the Quartermaster General had a timely brain wave. It was described last week in a release from the Army Service Forces depot in Atlanta...
...Colonel J. W. G. Stephens [then chief of Depot Operations] was stunned. Why hadn't he thought of it? ... Turning to his secretary he barked: 'Get the president of the Scott Tissue company...