Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters have been received by the Student Council Food Relief Committee from 12 University of Paris students acknowledging the receipt of the first food shipment to arrive abroad as a result of the College food conservation program...
...cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, was to join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally had to do something about...
...task of getting the supplies from the ports where UNRRA delivered them to the starving interior was up to China's own CNRRA (Chinese National Relief & Rehabilitation Administration). But CNRRA was paralyzed not only by transportation shortages, but by towering inefficiency, "squeeze" and partisanship. Samples: in Kwangsi Province, 13 junks loaded with medical supplies for Mme. Sun Yat-sen's "Peace Hospital," inside the Communist lines, were diverted to the Nationalists. Flour supplied free by UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese...
Shpihun had weighed it all very carefully. It was true that Canada had treated him well. Poor on arrival, he had been fed and housed by relief money when he could not get any of the limited manual labor he could do. Later he had been able to marry, raise four healthy children. For the last six years, Shpihun had worked steadily, earned $160 a month in a shipyard. His teen-age daughter Mary and son Bill had steady jobs also with the Canadian National Railways. They had plenty to eat and a cozy home, had even saved some money...
...last week bought an estimated 9 million tons of sugar from Cuba, the island's crop for the next two years. On paper, the figure looked big. But for the U.S. housewife it would mean no relief for her aching sweet tooth. There would be no more sugar available. Sugar rationing would still be here for a long time to come...