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...dinner that evening Henry Wallace had his choice of great stacks of duck, eggplant, cheese, tinned crabmeat, smoked salmon, salami, sausages, cucumbers, cantaloupe, ice cream, Russian chocolates, port wine or brandy. The General gave the Vice President two brightly colored Sinkiang rings, one for himself and one for Franklin Roosevelt. In turn Henry Wallace produced a luscious rarity for the Governor's wife: fat strawberries from Alma Ata, Siberia. After two days he was off on the 1,500-mile trip to the key stop of his swing around Asia...
...addition to some vegetables, each adult gets a ration of nine oz. of rice daily (compared to average prewar consumption of 15.52 oz. and a 1941 ration of 11.68 oz.). Unrationed eggplant, salted turnips and radishes help fill empty bellies; the black market flourishes despite strict police control. Clothing is of poor quality and severely rationed. This winter most public buildings are unheated...
...wealth. In Florida it is harvest season. Men & women in straw hats swarm over beanfields and sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
...This book encourages me. I think I will write a book. ... I remember in the movie when Mr. Kieran took the eggplant and put it in his pocket. He looked like the kind of man who would write this book, only he's not so very handsome. But he surely knows a lot. I've never listened to Mr. Kieran on the radio, but judging from the book, I think he would be pretty good...
Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...