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...beets; honey; ginger root; almonds or hazelnuts, sliced. Wash, peel and cut beets into half-inch slices. Cook and drain. Add one cup of honey for each cup of beets and cook until thick. Flavor with ginger root and serve cold with nuts...
...forces, everywhere they fought desperately to hold, but they had not struck out in a full-scale counterattack as they had done four historic times before to check Russian offensives. Surrounded in cities behind the Russian lines were an estimated 650,000 Germans. Perhaps the long drain on manpower was at last beginning to tell. The 50-day agony of Budapest, one of the surrounded strong points, came to an end. The guns fell silent and out of the rubble crawled the garrison, 110,000 dazed men. Red Army soldiers moved in, flushed the Nazi commander, Colonel General Pfeffer-Wildenbruch...
This foreign hoard has piled up for several reasons: while the U.S. has been Lend-Leasing goods and weapons to some nations, it has had to plunk out cash to import huge quantities of raw materials and stockpile supplies in foreign countries. Another drain on the U.S. is to the 6,000,000 U.S. servicemen abroad. Although the U.S. is now exporting $14 billion in goods a year, the Board pointed out that only some 50% of this is for cash. The rest is Lend-Lease. In fact, excluding Lend-Lease operations, the U.S. has had an "unfavorable" balance...
...made a good record in Italy. In France the record was even better. The officers had luck. French crops were good. The retreating Germans had had no time to drain off France's food resources, had even left behind thousands of tons of their own supplies. Quick action on the part of the F.F.I, forestalled the destruction by Germans of water, light and sewage systems. But there was still a vast and complicated job to do when G-5 arrived on the heels of the fighting armies...
...dishes will drain dry by themselves. The only time wiping is permissible is when very hard water makes water spots. For this purpose, towels must be absolutely clean, or they will add to the bacteria on the dishes. Dishes should never be put away...