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...with a machine gun and a 20-mm. gun apiece, two with two machine guns. The fourth platoon's tanks all carry 37-mm. guns. In addition, a tank company includes headquarters troops (four tanks), passenger cars and trucks for reconnaissance and repair, plus combat, baggage and ration trains and a replacement group...
Fields: "You can't get away with that stuff todav." Published in London was A Kitchen Goes to War, ration-time cookery book designed to avoid waste, achieve "variety and a well-balanced diet." Some contributors: Viscountess Astor (Haddock Fin-landais); Sir Malcolm Campbell (How to Make the Best of Your Bacon Ration); Viscountess Halifax (Savoury Haddock); H. W. ("Bunny") Austin (Tomato and Asparagus Bundles); Sir Hugh Walpole
...Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every child in America ought to feel vividly the suffering and loneliness experienced by the children who are victims of a racial and religious intolerance...
...expensive in peacetime, is practically impossible in wartime. In sudden panic, the Ministry of Corporations in Rome removed 84 trains from service, limited industries to 80% of the coal they used last year, provided coal coupons for individuals but permitted hotels with foreign tourists to burn slightly above the ration...
...tens of thousands of British women, mostly below 40, enlisted to serve with the British Expeditionary Force. Besides driving cars, ATS duties include clerking, signaling, courier service, running canteens. Like the VADS, the gallant ATS come in for a lot of British ragging. Because their daily basic meat ration is 8 oz. (compared to about 3 oz. for civilians), the Daily Express calls them EATS. Because they are invited en masse to Army dances and sociables, their love life is an inexhaustible subject for wisecracks...