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...taxis. The Reich is so short of doctors that it is advertising for more physicians in the occupied countries. The overworked doctors in Germany itself have been warned not to prescribe iodine, aspirin or diets with extra food. For the last two Christmases Germans have had generous extra rations of food. This year the Christmas ration is two ounces of coffee and six of lentils...
...Rumania's five-day Jewish pogrom last January was featured by "kosher butchery," a monstrous parody of the Jewish ritual for killing animals by throat-slitting. "All Jewish men from 18 to 50 years of age have been drafted for forced labor. Their daily food ration is one-eighth of that provided for a Rumanian soldier...
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard is worried about the coming shortage of tractors. There is talk in Washington of a ration plan for heavy farm machinery. Military needs are gobbling so much steel that next year there will not be enough tractors to go around: merely to replace those worn out, 125,000 new ones will be needed. If the U.S. population of horses and mules continues to dwindle at its present rate, at least another 50,000 tractors will be needed. (In 1940, tractors on farms increased...
Painters, like other businessmen, now face priorities. Foreseeing virtual confiscation of certain key materials like titanium white, cadmium and chromium pigments, Manhattan's American Artists' Professional League (2,200 members) recently petitioned Washington for cooperation in keeping artists supplied with their annual ration of paint (about a gallon apiece). For some 35,000 U.S. citizens who make their living painting pictures that gallon of paint is a necessity...
...things we ought to do: 1) Money. Have quite a large sum ... to be sewed into my stays. 2) See that each member of the household has a pair of good strong shoes. 3) Have a rucksack . . . for everyone, even Charles (the smallest). 4) Think out an iron ration of compressed food. 5) Remember gas masks, ration books and identification cards...