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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cigars were passed, to the surprise of many a Protestant leader present. One of them smiled, said the gesture was like "serving ham to a Catholic on Friday." Catholics had provided both meal and cigars, so everybody laughed and went right on talking shop-Roman Catholic to Methodist, Jew to Episcopalian, Lutheran to Congregationalist...
Families on relief can buy a dollar's worth of orange stamps, good for any food, get free a 50% dividend in blue stamps good only for "surplus" foods. This month the foods on the free list include pancake and whole wheat flour, corn meal and hominy grits, dry beans, potatoes, fresh vegetables, apples-all plentiful but hardly surplus. Also included: eggs-obviously not a surplus commodity to customers who pay 60? to 80? a dozen for them in big cities...
...story of British pluck made the rounds in London's pubs last week. At a dinner part to which Red Army officers had invited their British colleagues, the Russians topped off the meal with a batch of rousing Russian folk songs. Asked to reciprocate with some folk songs of their own, the British officers went into an embarrassed huddle. Only song they could think of was the Eton Boating Song, which they promptly boomed out with old school fervor. Impressed, the Russians asked to be taught the words and tune. Soon, weeping in their vodka, the sturdy Muscovites bellowed...
...every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade, and if you do not drink...
...hoped that student cooperation in this direction will alleviate the overcrowding which was evident late in the Summer and which is expected to get worse with every meal. The main reason for the difficulty is the surrender of the Union dinning hall to the Naval dwellers in the yard...