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...Miss Louisa had kept him hidden through all the long years of war, draft-boards, ration books and national registration could only be guessed at. Some neighbors gossiped that he was Rose's illegitimate son, hidden to avoid family scandal. Louisa herself could not enlighten them. She was carried off to a local hospital with a paralyzing cerebral hemorrhage. Nor could Henry. Scrubbed and trimmed, he was being cared for in a mental hospital only a mile or two away. He knew he had lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told...
...sent to the U.S. and Britain for training, and could now run the plant with a minimum of foreign help. Capacity: 350,000 tons of fertilizer a year, enough to produce an extra 875,000 tons of food grains annually-an amount equal to the year's daily ration (12 oz.) of 7,000,000 people...
...opinions while swinging from the New Deal to Henry Wallace, and back to the Fair Deal when Wallace became a presidential candidate. Result: its group of readers (97,000 in 1948, at the top) dropped to 24,000, and the magazine's pages slimmed to a starvation ration...
Churchill's task was to dramatize a new time of trouble for Britain. The country resounded to ministerial predictions of doom. Anthony Eden: "The country is in acute and continuing danger." Food Minister Woolton: "We may not be able to maintain the new meat ration" (16? worth a week). Gloomiest of all was Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler, whose painful lot it was to propose a new national belt-tightening in Parliament. Warned "Rab" Butler: "We face the risk of being bankrupt, idle and hungry." To weather the storms, at home & abroad, Britain needed Churchill...
Though fearless in her frontline social work, Pepita admits to one great terror: "Of mice and rats I have a loathing." At the sight of a Korean rodent she is likely to shout and climb atop the nearest ration or ammo box. Chic in the best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine...