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...load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands of returned troops were stalled indefinitely. Housing facilities were so bad many of them...
...diet (estimated at 1,350 calories) that Germans were actually getting this month under the U.S. ration system. Through black markets and hoarding, many Germans were getting more. But as the winter wore on, many might be getting less...
Pointless. In Newark, 125,000 red ration points were stolen the night before all red points were declared invalid...
...With practically no exceptions, every show is a sellout and they have twice as many shows currently playing as we have in New York. A theater ticket is one of the few things they can buy without ration points. Some shows are good, some are bad. It doesn't seem to matter. The musicals that I have seen don't come up to our standards, but they have a repertory company with Laurence Olivier as the moving spirit, which makes anything on Broadway look like a penny arcade...
Washington took it off the ration list. But meat-some meat-was viewed with alarm last week by Detroit's Dr. S. E. Gould. Dr. Gould was brooding about trichinosis, the sometimes-fatal worm disease that people get from infested pork...