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...Roomy. In Kansas City, Kans., a ration board which took an applicant to task for never "sharing the ride" promptly learned the cause of his solitude: "I haul garbage...
...notorious Bilibid, 800 prisoners had survived on a meager ration of wormy corn, rice and soybeans. But they thought this was not so bad as life in the "hellhole" camp at Cabanatuan. Survivors liberated from Cabanatuan by U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas told of the menu there two years ago: rats, cats, dogs, worms and frogs they caught hopping from latrines...
...asked Windsor police to detain U.S. shoppers until the jam on the Detroit side cleared. Then they were released in groups of 50 aboard the Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus. On the U.S. side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...refugees, and others were packed with soldiers and sent off to the front, in imitation of Gallieni's great taxicab army which helped to save Paris in 1914. Streetcars stopped running and subway service was heavily reduced. Food cards were stretched for an extra week and the potato ration...
Your article on Miss Anita Colby (Jan. 8) astounded me. . . . Would you please tell an ordinary citizen how this extraordinary lady manages 150 pairs of shoes on our present ration coupons...