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...blockading us. We have not a moment to lose in preparing for the worst in regard to all those supplies that come to us from abroad." Then he announced that gasoline would be unobtainable by private motorists during the month of February, that tea rations would be cut onefourth, that wheat reserves would last barely until the next harvest, that private coal consumption would be reduced to half a ton per home per month, that cattle would have to be slaughtered unless fodder formerly imported could be grown at home...
...Ottawa, the Governor General's lady, alert, peppery Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, founded an organization with the aim of aiding Frenchmen living in Britain (onefourth of the Canadian population is French). Her advice to knitters: "Don't forget French feet are smaller. Knit them size 9½ to 10½ instead of the big socks needed for Canadians...
...permission to settle in Alaska, founded Alaska's first refugee colony at Metlakatla. They fished for salmon, now have Alaska's most prosperous municipality. With publicly owned utilities, a 60-piece band, Alaska's only municipal hall, modern Met-lakatlans have fine homes (onefourth have organs or pianos), own boats valued from...
...Oklahoma City and Omaha were on relief they would approximately equal the number of persons in New York City now living on government bounties. They number 1,400,000- one-fifth the total population.* To support them costs about $20,000,000 per month, of which the city supplies onefourth, the State onefourth, the Federal Government one-half. About 17% of them are aliens or people who have taken out their first papers. Only 120,000 of them work for their relief pay, and of these only 19,500 are employed on white-collar projects. But the activities of those...
...third in strength of all land armies over & above the so-called police component!" "I propose," the President went on, "that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third; that the treaty tonnage of aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers shall be reduced by onefourth; that the treaty tonnage of submarines shall be reduced by one-third, and that no nation shall retain a submarine tonnage greater than...