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...account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments of beef, lamb and mutton by about eight million Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Meat Mystery | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Pearson and Don Pearlberg pointed out that even if eight million armed men eat up to 20% more than they did as civilians, as eating mouths they would be equivalent only to a mere 1% added to the U.S. population. And 1942's meat production (21 billion Ib.) was 10% greater than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Meat Mystery | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Twenty-eight-year-old Red Cross Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"-he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Badge of Courage | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Milwaukee man had hoarded 158 Ib. of coffee, his quota for a decade. Boston 'racketeers stole householders' food by posing as OPA inspectors come to check excess supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit the Can Opener | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...fictitious names, since the Red Cross will not knowingly take blood from anyone oftener than once every two months. Armour has altogether been drained of about three times as much blood as he has in his body at any one time. His weight has stayed the same: around 216 Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Generous Veins | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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