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...Swedish Government has had to send 28,000 tons of wheat, 7,800 tons of flour, 2,000 tons of oats, 4,000 tons of butter, 12,000 tons of potatoes, 5,000 tons of sugar, much iron and steel to the German armies on the Eastern Front...
...stopper for a canteen. In a half-wrecked house on a square which someone had renamed Piazza Brown others listened to a phonograph grotesquely grinding out their favorite, Waltzing Matilda. A camouflage unit, fresh out of paint, improvised with captured Italian coffee (undrinkable), tomato sauce (condemned) and flour paste (plentiful...
Bakers kneaded flour and shoveled loaves by the hundreds into their ovens. Mechanics-"cannibals" to their officers -performed miracles of condensation, assembling one good vehicle from many wrecked ones. Cobblers made fantastic shoes, stitching old inner tubes for soles to Aussie felt hats for uppers...
...third of the nation still cannot afford to eat enough good food. About 10,000,000 of the most needy are now reached through the Surplus Marketing Administration, which gives free lunches to school children, provides stamps for free butter, eggs, pork products, fruits, vegetables, flour, cereals. But the number of free foods may soon be curtailed. Even as the delegates talked, newspapers reported that butter had been taken off the Stamp Plan...
...outlook is not bright. Only help for them is to keep prices down; otherwise they too will become a charge on the Government. On the very day on which the first Nutrition Conference opened, the President signed the new crop-loan bill, which will tend to raise prices of flour, pork chops, ham, bacon, other vital foods...