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...scandalous G.I. cigaret shortage in France aroused the Army to swift action. Last week, after nearly two months of careful undercover work, investigators announced their first big haul. Arrested at various posts between Cherbourg and Paris, close to 200 soldiers, including two officers, confessed to receiving a total of $200,000 from black-market sales of-stolen cigarets...
...reason that OPA cannot make good on these sugary promises is because another well-intentioned promise went sour. The War Shipping Administration promised that more ships would be available to haul sugar into the U.S. from Cuba, where warehouses are bulging with 1,000,000 tons, bought & paid for by the U.S. But the pinch in shipping is still too tight. Furthermore, U.S. beet-sugar growers harvested only 1,100,000 tons this year-more than last year, but still a big 500,000 tons less than the 1942 crop. Also, in 1944 about 900,000 tons of Cuban production...
...their biggest tasks was surfacing the fields. To get material, they hacked out two coral quarries. To move the coral, they built a smooth three-lane highway that cut a five-hour haul to 15 minutes. Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...
...careful look, Lord Swinton took the first two proposals. But he left the other three, particularly the last, which would have permitted a U.S. plane flying to Paris via London to pick up passengers in London, take them to Paris. This, he argued, might "freeze out" British short-haul airlines. The Netherlands and France sided with England. But other nations, notably Latin American and Scandinavian countries, agreed to all five...
...tropical rains pelted down, made the ground so slippery that to climb the slightest incline men had to plod up with "herringbone" ski technique, or haul themselves up by thick overhanging vines. Some U.S. units were fighting three or four days from their base; their supplies were brought in by human pack trains-soldiers and Filipino laborers...