Word: highpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them want to come home. In the past two months, nearly 5,000 highpoint G.I.s in Europe have asked to be discharged on the spot. By last week about 15,000 had applied for civilian jobs with the Army and UNRRA in Germany and France...
...Slow Wheels. The War Department said the 86th had already been screened twice, the 95th once, to avoid sending highpoint men overseas. The Navy Department's stock answer to protests was that its policy was being "clarified," that 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 men would be discharged within 18 months...
...Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...
...down the U.S., butchers faced the same problem. Steaks, roasts, chops, all highpoint meats, were a drug on the market. Many a butcher took advantage of OPA's concession that point values may be cut if stocks are in danger of spoiling. Too many butchers took advantage: OPA debated canceling its rule and letting the honest dealer's meat spoil-steaks, chops, liverwurst...
...reading of Vanzetti's letter, omitted from the stage version, is much the highpoint of a fine evening. It is handled so subtly that it never disguises the true humor of the situation, and the audience does not forget that the same man who is talking for freedom played the very unacademic drunk. Olivia de Havilland leaves something to be desired as the professor's wife, but she still comes through in the clinches...