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...nights before the election Ibáñez supporters put on an enthusiastic but disorganized demonstration in a Santiago public square. Two nights later at least 30,000 Rios partisans marched in superb order into the Plaza Bulnes, carrying such anti-Ibáñez slogans as BLOCKHEAD, RETURN TO BERLIN and LET'S TURN HIM OVER TO JAPAN...
Election day was unusually orderly. But during the quiet the Popular Front, the mining, industrial and farm workers who did not like the dictatorial smell of General Ibáñez, rolled up a whacking majority of 55,000 (out of 460,000) votes for Juan Antonio Rios...
...Army rations were not always so sumptuous. During the Revolution, a soldier was issued daily (if he got it) 1 Ib. of meat, 6 oz. of bread, 1 pt. of milk, rice, 1 qt. of spruce beer. He had to do his cooking himself. The War of 1812 added another item to the list: vinegar, which was mixed with sugar and water to make a highly regarded tonic. In the Civil War, Union soldiers got 20 oz. of beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu...
...delicate brown," to keep meat "succulent and tender." There are also plenty of suggestions for mess sergeants, who are responsible for adapting Army menus to the locales in which their troops serve. Although soldiers in their first six months of service gain an average 8 to 16 Ib., few of them are satisfied with the food that is dished up to them...
...Kearny turbine uses 310,000 Ib. of mercury (normal value: about $250.000). Widespread use of mercury in turbines, engineers are sure, will not be hindered by inadequate supplies in a peacetime world. But today all mercury in the Western Hemisphere funnels into U.S. war industries...