Word: enamels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discouraging Pots. Even more discouraging were pots & pans (favorite collectors' items despite the sharp, post-V-E-day cut in meat, milk, bacon, fats and sugar rations).* In Petticoat Lane is one of the best places to find kitchenware, hairpins and hair-curlers, a small enamel dishpan costs about...
...smelled a little of chlorine for a change, and there were white enamel bowls and a small kitchen. Since the Americans arrived, these people's chances to survive have increased slightly. On that day 200 died of malnutrition and disease. The day that I was there, 70 died...
They got it. Rocket-firing Typhoons, before going on to shoot up Nazis, landed on the runways with auxiliary fuel tanks full of beer. Swarms of the thirsty gathered round with enamel mugs. The first tank-fuls tasted bad because of the tank linings; this flavor was overcome by chemical means and later loads were delicious. Just like the corner pub at home...
...smoke of flaming Isigny is still in my eyes. When we entered that picturesque provincial town yesterday in the wake of our conquering troops, the main street was a long row of crackling, collapsing buildings. Nearly everything along the cobblestoned Rue de Cherbourg was on fire except the enamel highway sign which proclaimed Cherbourg to be 61 kilometers (about 38 miles) ahead...
...battle commander in World War I; a star-studded Victory Medal; a parti-colored array of ribbons showing service in China, Cuba, the Philippines and other odd corners of the earth where Marines served and fought while the world was technically at peace; the gold and enamel medal of the distinguished marksman...