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Stuck with the refugees, French authorities adopted methods calculated to help "persuade" them that they would be better off almost anywhere else. Typical rations were one loaf of bread daily for six men, a sack of rice for 400 men. Sanitation has been nonexistent. Open latrines have been dug in the camp sand and all modesty about nature's functions has long ago disappeared...
Suggested for adults: 18 ounces (about one loaf) of whole wheat a day, for carbo-lydrates; two-fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges...
...mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...
This year Hal blessed with perhaps only three "natural" swimmers: Jim Curwen, who can loaf through any free-style race fact enough to make the stopwatch stagger; Art Bosworth, those ideal swimming build enables him to be a sure point-winner in either sprints or backstroke, and Kric Cutler, absent last year, but enough of an expert so that he will probably remain unbeaten this year in any 220 or 440 free-style event he swims...
Chairman Charles offers other reasons. For one thing the nature of the business was germane to boom times, not bad times. Delivering a jar of caviar to goth Street was all very well; not so a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee. And chains-with low overhead, mass purchases and many good standard brands-cut in plenty...