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Extraction. In Portland, Ore., a shopper popped out her false teeth, let them lie. Reason: she refused to lose her place in the nylon queue...
Seven months after the end of the war, their new rations seemed, to many Britons, worse than war itself. Said one suburbanite, standing in the queue before the butcher's shop: "There's been more moaning over this than over the buzz bombs...
...They Run. In Fitchburg, Mass, three white mice routed a nylon-stocking queue, left three males in line...
...returned servicemen here at TIME were not surprised at how many veterans were buying TIME on the newsstands. Having read TIME-and seen their friends queue up for copies -on all sorts of warfronts during the last four years, they had predicted that quite a percentage of our postwar newsstand buyers would prove to be servicemen who had got the habit of reading TIME abroad...
Less Bread. Resentment against the Government boiled over when housewives had to queue up for bread again. After two months France was back on rations...