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...home. Apart from such gifts, prisoners thought that they fared about as Germans did. British Private Richard Welsh of Yorkshire gave the most telling account: "A lot of us suffered from dysentery and stomach trouble owing to the poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell of Dunfermline said: "Our average daily menu was a half-pint of herb tea, a quart of soup (turnips and hot water), twelve...
...years after the early Dutch settlers ruined the scarcity value of wampum by mass-producing shells with holes in them, there was almost no money. The U.S. Mint did not get started till ten years after Independence, and even in 1795 produced less than 4? of currency per capita.* For years currency in different parts of the country included tobacco, coonskins, honey, wild turkey and venison. Peace with England cut off many profitable early sources of income, most notably "legalized" privateering, which had formerly employed more men than there were in George Washington's entire army...
Pokazhem Miru. And yet the Russians take pride in their sufferings and sacrifices. War's searing flames, they say, have tested, then tempered, their mettle. Today, though hungry, weary and regimented, the Russians think they are the world's chosen people. Their new slogan is Pokazhem mint!-"We'll show the world...
Oklahoma! Fresh-as-mint folk musical, with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and warm Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...There is scarcely a family in the country in which some member is not saving pennies; prompted by the praiseworthy purpose of accumulating savings, not realizing that in withdrawing them from circulation they are forcing the Mint to make an unnecessary tax upon the metal resources of the country," it concludes...