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...Kaiser workers would not use the ferries or the railroad. Of the 93,500 employes, 15,356 still drive their cars to work, more than three-quarters of them with supplemental ration cards which they got by telling the ration board there was no other way of getting there. The trains ran with about 3% of their seats filled...
...bombs fell. In the morning Danes would find abandoned parachutes in the fields. Word spread rapidly that the British were repatriating the young men who had fled to learn the saboteur's trade. One such young man was found crumpled in a Copenhagen garden, false papers, ration cards and 30,000 kroner in his pockets. His parachute had failed...
...backlog of orders for 1,000,000 Bibles and Testaments, is refusing all new orders until these are filled. Oxford University Press (which manufactures 80% of its Bibles and Testaments in the U.S.) now fills back orders on a percentage basis, has announced that beginning Oct. 1 it will ration Bibles, giving bookstores a quota based on previous sales...
...roster of the service schools now includes some three all-Navy schools, four Army schools, and two Army-Navy groups, with one more Army group coming in the fall. They include everything from Apprentice Seamen in the V-12 unit to high ranking Army officers in Overseas Administration ration. And then there are two branch units in Harvard's neighboring girl schools; Radcliffe with its well-established contingent of WAVES and Wellesley, with a group of overflow students from the Navy Supply Corps due to disembark on the Wellesley hills in October...
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...