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...Women may be allowed to accompany troops as laundresses in numbers not exceeding four to a company. . . . Laundresses shall be entitled to receive one ration daily...
Since early in the fall, the bread ration cards have been abolished and new stores have been opened everywhere. The open market, strictly prohibited by early communistic practice, is now being tolerated, and thus a wider list of commodities is available to the Russians. Likewise the handicraft workers, put out of business by the Socialists in 1928, are again allowed to contribute to the market. "This indicates a slight concession to private initiative," Professor Hopper explained. "The general trend is to increased production of consumer's goods, rather than to manufacture for the state...
...flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
Next to the Baruch plan, the most arresting proposal the Commission heard last week came from New York's swart little Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia. A War aviator, Representative La Guardia wanted a constitutional amendment to allow a wartime Government to declare a moratorium, nationalize all industry, ration the entire civil population and conscript everyone "from Texas Guinan to J. P. Morgan." Ships, railroads, everything would be taken over without compensation and returned later to their owners without damage payments. Testified this Republican insurgent...
Previously a Russian has had to apply for a ration card in order to buy a pair of shoes or a scuttleful of coal. Having obtained this card (after wrangling and explanations as to why he needed shoes-it being no explanation to wiggle one's bare toes) the next step was to take the card and stand in a slow-moving line of perhaps 500 persons. In the boxoffice would be a clerk, bored and discourteous. When the barefoot man with the card got to this clerk, perhaps after standing in line half a day, he might...