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...Belgium the bread ration had been cut to eight ounces daily, meat to two ounces (including bone) a day. There was no butter, no lard, no coffee, little sugar. In France even Marshal Pétain had to dig out his out his ration card for the waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied...
...been expecting the meat situation to ease somewhat for Minister of Food Lord Woolton declared fortnight ago: "The meat shortage is only temporary." Instead last week Lord Woolton was obliged to admit: "For the first time in 17 months of war we failed last week to meet the meat ration...
Suiting drastic action to these words, Woolton abruptly lowered the British meat ration, which last month stood at 47? worth of meat per person per week, to 30? (15. 6d.).Two days later the Food Minister felt obliged to cut the meat ration to 23? (15. 2d.)-which at war prices means about 1 Ib. beef or 2 lb. mutton. Chickens are not rationed but cost 65? a lb. and most people cannot afford them. To most Britons this meant that the German counter-blockade had taken hold in grim earnest, although Lord Woolton offered an explanation: "There were excellent...
...began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began to worry. So did the British, who got about a fifth of the industry's 1940 production...
...high seas. Wodehouse is one of a group of 60 who share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along. There are no books. For recreation, the prisoners are allowed to play cards, and there is an empty room...