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Housing authorities turned over two houses for 15 quarantined families. Milk bottles delivered at the doors of contact houses were collected and destroyed. Ration books handled by a local grocer who caught the disease were called in and burned. Portions of his stock that could not be disinfected were destroyed. Some 80,000 residents of Brighton and environs flocked, with urging, to be vaccinated...
...hours after he became Secretary of Defense, but he could not see any solution if U.S. troops were to continue to be the world's best supplied, best cared for and best fed. Said Marshall reminiscently: "Our services are too luxurious. I was raised on a 16? ration, no chicken, no turkey and no butter. If there was any, by the time I got it, it was melted...
...laughing crowds in London's Piccadilly Circus, restored to its prewar dazzle only 18 months ago, gave a full-throated rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The New Year did not stay welcome for long. Last week, with housewives grousing over the latest cut in the meat ration (eight ounces to four ounces weekly), Piccadilly's neon lights were doused by a coal shortage...
Stabilizer Alan Valentine talked bravely about making a big try to control meat prices, but nobody thought such controls could possibly work unless accompanied by rationingand Valentine was not printing any ration books...
...ridiculous, she agonized through a short life of 34 years and died in 1943 in a gesture that seemed to typify her gift for futile heroics. She virtually starved herself to death in England by refusing, though she was weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime ration for her native France...