Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing gum, cigarets...
...fruit juice with the supper ration provides more moisture. The canned-meat ration is so hot from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...
Wives and mothers may rejoice at the poll popularity of homemade cookies and other eats, but the unfeeling Navy Department puts in: "Stale or mashed cakes, cookies reduced to crumbs and spoiled fruit do not make for a Merry Christmas for boys overseas." Instead, Mother should send a sewing kit (in Army & Navy sonny wants it). The Navy likes overnight bags...
...Cossack took up his ax and called his 13-year-old grandson from a neighboring house: "Come here, grandson, and let us cut down the orchard and smash the beehives." Apple, pear and apricot trees laden with still unripe fruit fell one after another. "Pile it up in the street," the old man said. "Let anybody who wants take it, and what is left the armored tractors will crush to pulp when they come...
...life is pleasantly hectic. Big business bemoans shipping troubles and losses of lands, machinery and men to the war effort. Sugar, Hawaii's biggest industry, may manage to ship 850,000 raw tons this year, 10% less than last. Pineapples, the second industry, bear up well because the fruit, like sugar, goes to the mainland in the holds of returning supply and ammunition ships. Tourism was the third industry. Today tourists wear dungarees, live in places like Red Hill, a huge defense camp, are named Never Sweat Harry and Kalamazoo Joe. They spend as freely as the other latter...