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From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...
Stewards head each of the seven units, and as men trained in the art of cooking and dietetics, they are responsible for drawing up menus for each week. These menus are cleared through Westcott's office where they are checked for a balanced diet, and are then sent to the printer. On the basis of these menus, stewards compute the amount of food they will need for the week...
...Army camps, it would be almost an overwhelming Christmas. The menus read like a meal for Gargantua. At San Antonio's mammoth cadet aviation center, incoming packages averaged 12,000 a day. In Portland, 20 carloads of parcel post, mostly for soldiers, stood idle for days while the postmaster looked for help to distribute it. To the training center at Indio, Calif, would go 300 movie belles to dance with the soldiers...
...traditional sonorities. In Vienna dour Composer Arnold Schönberg led a whole school of younger men in what sounded to conventional ears like some weird insult. In Paris, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger and a group of Left-Bank revolutionists began imitating African tom-toms and hopefully setting restaurant menus to music. U.S. composers in the main followed the Europeans. Scarcely a tune was written by highbrows that anybody could whistle. Between them and the concertgoing public a gulf opened...
...week's end the findings had a distraught housewife's directness: 1) "We don't need that much meat"; 2) "It's too expensive"; 3) "The menus don't use leftovers...