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...with all the material covered by the class, it's difficult to jam-pack everything into one afternoon a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Like Ike and Love Lucy but Adore This Class | 3/13/1996 | See Source »

...rationing began last spring, the small Dixie Market in little Ypsilanti, Mich. (1940 pop. 12,000), hard by the Willow Run bomber plant, has done a big city business. For 10½| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week. Yet the store has never collected a ration stamp from a customer. For the Dixie Market deals only in unrationed groceries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Pointless Story | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...these increases would ordinarily jam-pack every butcher's showcase in the U.S., mean cheap meat for U.S. citizens. Not this year. The Government is buying 40% of all packer-processed pork, a big (but undisclosed) portion of beef and veal output. Some of this is lend-leased, but the bulk of it is gobbled up by U.S. fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: 57 Varieties Go To War | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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