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...Chinese National Relief & Rehabilitation Administration). But CNRRA was paralyzed not only by transportation shortages, but by towering inefficiency, "squeeze" and partisanship. Samples: in Kwangsi Province, 13 junks loaded with medical supplies for Mme. Sun Yat-sen's "Peace Hospital," inside the Communist lines, were diverted to the Nationalists. Flour supplied free by UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless...
LONDON--Minister of Food John Strachey announced today that bread and flour will be rationed throughout the United Kingdom for the first time in history. Rationing will begin July...
...others will believe that the food-saving measures of the past term have been "entirely nullified by students purchasing in Square restaurants." The fact is that local restaurateurs have not noticed it, and in no event could food eaten outside set off much of the 1600 pounds of critical flour actually saved for each of four weeks last term. The strictly Lowell House complaint about food quality makes a hollow sound when the House Committee claims that discontent was "traceable directly to the forced food savings program." The House had long been notorious in that respect...
...occasional cabbage or flower counter, and Viennese eat about as much in one day as an American eats for breakfast. The weekly ration (except for heavy workers) consists of one loaf of bread, two ounces of dried meat, three ounces of fat, a cup and a half of flour, a cup and a half of dried peas and five ounces of sugar. Many Viennese know that they would not be eating at all this month if it had not been for Clark's efforts, but, as traditional Raunzer (gripers), they are now telling each other that the grammar rules...
Then she fired up the stove, crammed Faustina into several kettles (with "my formula of 10 Ibs. of caustic soda, alum and resin") and boiled them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...