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Sept. 6-. . . Crossed big river on log jam. . . . Crossed another on log, wandered hr. or two, lost, back to river, found three native huts, one with floor. . . . Sick in night, first time, probably from stingers on hand and mouth...
There are still only two meals daily. They are generous meals, however, and a typical menu includes steak, beans, bread and butter with jam, canned peaches and coffee. The men supplement regular meals with coconuts and occasional local tangerines. There are no natives around to climb trees and get them coconuts, but high winds have solved this problem by breaking off tops of trees and bringing down a bonanza of nuts...
Changed Hours. Meanwhile the stores jam through one operation change after another. To take care of war workers and extra-busy housewives, most stores stay open until 9 or 10 one or two nights a week. To offset the transportation pinch a Sears, Roebuck outlet in Sacramento started a free bus service-a sales-getting scheme used for years in outlying Brooklyn districts. And counter revolutions go on endlessly: jams & jellies on the toilet-goods counter; dinnerware in the outlawed electrical-goods department; blackout accessories on the once-busy hosiery counter...
...beer taverns, juke joints, dine & dance spots have twice as many frolickers as a year ago; everybody seems to have extra cash to spend, especially aircraft workers, longshoremen, sailors. Weekly gross at The Ranch runs up to $18,000, almost double earlier this year. At the Olympic Hotel youngsters jam the ballroom; about 90% of the boys are in uniform. In private clubs (only in clubs can liquor be sold by the drink) business has doubled, and clanging slot machines often pay all a club's operating expenses. Unlike most cities, Seattle revelers bypass cancan shows, prefer jugglers, acrobats...
...nearly three years the gremlins devoted themselves exclusively to the R.A.F. But recently Sergeant Gunner Z. E. White of Dallas, Tex. had the guns on "Big Punk," his Flying Fortress, jam just as he got a German Focke-Wulf 190 in his sights over the North Sea. When White reported what had happened, Pilot Oscar Coen, one of the three original members of the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, nodded his head sagely. A noted gremlinologist, Coen knew then that the gremlins had joined the U.S. Air Forces and that the time had come for their activities to be explained...