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Please note that we evacuees have been suffering shortages since last May. We mothers have been frankly worried about the vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
...week that Morgenthau planned to do anything about his views. Sensitive of his bad relations on Capitol Hill, he was determined to wait until Congress sought his counsel-a day that may not come until long after the apple trees on Fishkill Farms have budded, blossomed and borne their fruit...
...three were bright young men during World War I. All three followed a path from being scientists to being top industrial executives. But most important, all three have participated in the invasion of petroleum research into the chemical field. That invasion has now borne fruit. Most important wartime petroleum by-product is toluene, the basis of TNT (trinitrotoluene) which the industry now provides at many times the scale of World War I when it was derived from coal. Another critical petroleum derivative is butadiene, basis for synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 30). Vital to the war, derivates of petroleum...
...locusts went up over all the land of Egypt. . . . They covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees . . . and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.-Exodus...
...Navy ordered Alligators worth over $3,000,000. Their job: to haul men, munitions and supplies from battleships and transports on to enemy shores, thus speed and simplify dangerous invasion jobs. Donald looked around for a manufacturer, finally handed the order to nearby Food Machinery Corp. (spray pumps, fruit washers, etc.), which normally makes nothing more deadly than a peach pitter, but had made parts for Roebling's experimental models. Today Food Machinery alone has orders for over $50,000,000 worth of Alligators, and hundreds of others are being made by Borg-Warner, Graham-Paige Motors...