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...food is almost universally good. You get plenty of meat, butter, and milk, with no worries about ration books and 16 points a week. During my five-day so-journ in North Carolina I had a fried chicken meal that was literally on a par with anything the Ritz-Carlton or Locke Ober's can offer...
...leaving for the vacation may obtain their ration books from University Hall at any time during regular office hours, 9 to 5 o'clock...
When meals are resumed in the Adams, Dunster, and Kirkland House dining halls, three books may be required, for Ration Book No. 3 is soon to be issued through the mails. Present rationing of many ordinary foods makes it important that these books be taken out for the six week period. In addition to the food coupons which will be consumed in "home cooking," many No. 17 stamps will be used, for their one-pair shoe value expires at the end of June...
...training job was terrific. Whereas the Eighth Army had thousands of square miles of desert to range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...
...year earlier there was a recommendation that the students be required to furnish their own sugar, butter, coffee, tea, and chocolate. Excellent way to do away with collecting ration books...