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Underworld. In Great Falls, Mont., whoever took Mrs. J. E. Grady's three steaks left 60 red ration points for her on the kitchen table. In Kansas City, whoever made off with S. W. Porter's car got with it a collection of religious tracts and Bibles. In Philadelphia, whoever looted Juggler Walter Burns's car got an assortment of Indian clubs, colored wooden balls, spinning plates, battered hats, trumpet...
Horrors of War. In Phillipsburg, N.J., Seaman Horace A. Smith applied to his ration board for a new "A" gasoline book to replace his old one, then dutifully followed the official regulations and bought an ad in a local paper "LOST-in Mediterranean Sea, 'A' gas ration book...
...growing lands of the south, a thick smoke screen, pungent with reports of short crop and runaway prices, swirled up around the tobacco industry last week. Over the radio, cigaret programs vaguely hinted at a shrinking supply. Newspaper ads pleaded for patience if favorite brands were temporarily exhausted. To ration-wise citizens, all this spelled shortage. But what was behind the smoke...
...married T/4 in our outfit tried to pull a fast one at Widener the other day. He put in a call slip for a government pamphlet, but it didn't go through. It was for "Ration Book Number Three...
...attempt has been made to repair the damage done to a large number of high-priority targets in Germany by the Allied aerial pounding. German stocks & bonds, even on the regimented market, were in acute decline. Food was just sufficient to prolong life and sustain work; the clothing ration for civilians was completely suspended on Aug. 1; the coal ration this year will be 70% of the 1941 allowance-and in that winter city-dwellers wore overcoats in their homes and there was hot water just one day each week. It was in these circumstances that Hitler...