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...Germany the Red Army's heavy hand was slackening. That was related, among many other things, to the fact that millions of Russians face their hungriest winter, one in which thousands may die in the fields and streets...
...missions at their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...
News is always tremendously important to American boys far from home, but our Tokyo edition found its news-hungriest audience among the prisoners, long cut off from any word of the world outside the barbed-wire. Said Chaplain R. S. Waldrop: "These copies are a Godsend, for these men are as hungry for news as they are for food and medical aid." A B-29 crew man shot down in a big fire raid last spring had a different angle...
...Muddy" and empty at last into the Mississippi ten miles above St. Louis. The longest U.S. river (2,470 miles), it is also one of the most dangerous in flood. Forever seeking its lost channel (it once flowed north to Hudson Bay), the Missouri is also the hungriest of U.S. rivers, with a yearly menu of "ten thousand acres of good rich farming land, several miles of railroad, a few hundred houses, a forest or two and uncounted miles of sandbars...
...Angeles, smokers cultivated their local tobacconist as in the hungriest days of meat-and-butter scarcity. This month, Detroit's Cunningham's (chain stores) got about 70% of its July 1943 order. Asked what brands were short, an Atlanta jobber answer replied, "Lady, not to give you a short answer-all of them." Five times in five minutes the cigaret-counter girl at a Walgreen store in Chicago repeated wearily, "We have no name brands." Only in Columbia, S.C. was there an oasis in the cigaret-short South...