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Placid Surface. Philadelphians general ly accepted the discomforts and irritations of the tie-up with Quakerlike placidity-and even with some good humor. Ration boards stayed open until late at night, issuing emergency gasoline rations to any A-card holder who promised to carry a earful with him. The Army & Navy pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees...
...candidates will get extra gasoline for campaign trips this year, but political reporters assigned to cover them will have to hitchhike. Ruled national OPA headquarters last week, in icy response to a request from Ohio: "This office is at a loss to know how any local War Price and Ration Board could consider it possible to issue extra rations to newspaper men for covering the primary elections...
Cowie Hall again makes the new this week. First of all there is the attraction which Checkers and Dietitians alike have for so many of the boys. Nancy, Marion, Jane, Mary Anne, and all the others come in for their share of the dates. As long as they ration said dates out to only Mid-Off's all will be fine. Then the ladies behind the counter--Julia, Margaret, and Sally in particular--feted one of our men by a little birthday party very recently. And the Food. The other morning saw the worst form of torture possible thrust upon...
...Some] refugees were what the Japanese call 'repatriates'. . . . Without warning, some hundreds of harmless pedestrians, hawkers and beggars are rounded up in the streets of an occupied city . . . then systematically starved in one of the worst sort of concentration camps. The daily ration consists of rice gruel cooked with bicarbonate of soda (to economize on firewood) which is served without salt, flavoring, or other addition...
...indulgent to other civilians, the Nazi authorities forbade them to enter or leave the province without permits, put some to work on fortifications. Nevertheless, refugees-some of whom streamed in from the Baltic countries-crowded railway stations and blocked roads to the west, not bothering with identification papers or ration cards...