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...Fishermen. These are short-term measures at best, and wherever possible, the refugees are sent home or to new resettlement villages after two months in the camps. Those willing to resettle are given a piece of land, housing material, a six-month ration of rice and 3,500 piasters ($47) to help them get started. So far this year, 208,000 refugees have left the camps for new homes. One group of farmers even decided to take up fishing, founded its own fishing village on the shore of the South China...
...host shall come packaged in every K ration...
...Those of us who remain in Cuba could not have more wants... Food and clothing are rationed and can only be bought in minimal quantities with the Ration Book. Fresh milk and poultry are only sold to children and aged people, and many days they are not sold. Many people, especially children, walk barefooted on the streets because there are no shoes at shoe stores or because they have torn the only pair they are given for six months. To see someone wearing a coat and tie is a rare thing...
...School ("much patina, titled schoolmates and scanty meals") and went on to complete his medical studies in 1932. In 1938, foreseeing a second World War, he fled to Rome, where he stubbornly detached himself from the organized world around him. He let his passport expire. He applied for no ration book. He buried himself at the Vatican Museum as a librarian, read nothing printed after the French Revolution. But one day he saw German shells demolish the weathercock on a fine old church and abruptly decided that the time for passive resistance had ended...
...foreigners, my family and I enjoyed a much higher standard of living than any Chinese--a standing government policy. Of course we had no car, no television, no washing machine, no steam heat, but we did have a larger meat ration, enough money to buy milk, butter, and eggs, and a house with its own courtyard. In the summer we were given vacations at the seaside, still reserved for the most outstanding model workers. Whenever we travelled, however, we were plagued by red tape and special passes...