Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire, first, to know how our ration points are being used. Second, improved preparation methods to eliminate such practices as allowing food to stand as long as two hours before being served. Third, restitution of dining hall practices which have no apparent effect on costs...
Using the same lineup of Jack Butler (trumpet), George Lugg (trombone), Mezz Mezzrow (clarinet), Jack Bland (guitar), and Kaiser Marshall (drums), pianist Hodes gave the Harvard jazz fans three solid hours of improvisation such as one can't buy for love, money, or ration points around Boston. Once again the highlight of the session was a splendid version of the blues, featuring Jack Butler singing his own lyrics and then leading the band out on a series of ensemble choruses which were so superb as to overshadow everything else heard during the afternoon...
...R.A.F. Bomber Command. Eaker's arrival in England coincided with Harris' appointment as chief of the big British bombers. Eaker is a frequent guest at the Harris home, is a favorite of Harris' small daughter Jackie. He gives her chocolate from his Post Exchange ration. She gives him pert talk, hints delicately that he is getting bald...
Recently Annie arrived in Gooneyville to stay awhile with Spike Spangle, an old friend of her foster father, Daddy Warbucks. There she found that Fred Flask, village ration official, had taken away the Spangles' "A" book because they had used their car to make a 20-mile sick call...
...draws Little Orphan Annie is balding, cigar-smoking Harold Lincoln Gray. Despite the fact that the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune has been hitting relentlessly at gas-ration "muddling," bureaucracy and Government interference with private enterprise, Artist Gray has been-repeatedly warned by the Tribune-News Syndicate to keep controversial issues out of his strips. He ignored the orders because 1) he is publicity-wise, knows the value of having his strip talked about; 2) he is an all-out, old-line conservative Republican himself; 3) he finds it difficult to keep Annie "in tune with the times" and simultaneously...