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...truck parts were swung ashore at the Gulf, assembled into trucks on the spot and filled with supplies. Frequently the supply trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...
...soup course was dispensed with, for lack of ingredients. The salad was absent, black-market prices prohibiting. The main course, occupying a pitifully small central part of the table, consisted of a medium-sized plateful of home-fried potatoes (perhaps five potatoes in all), a two-inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo in the black market...
Wrote Correspondent Mead: "Only the food was missing. Dinner, when the dining-room doors were finally thrown open at 10 p.m., consisted of small pieces of bread on which were dabs of Spam, corned beef and Vienna sausage. ... No one mentioned food. It almost doesn't exist for civilians at the moment. . . . They say the Germans were very correct: no drunkenness, few troops; no noise...
...were annoyed. Irritation over clumsy U.S. ways of springing delicate international mines finally became vocal over the President's offhand announcement of the disposition of the Italian fleet (TIME, March 13). Last week, Britons wanted Cousin Sam (lately, and off the record, they have been calling him "Uncle Spam") to know that they did not like his style. They chose their foremost forum, the floor of the House of Commons, gave Winston Churchill a bad half-hour answering polite but insistent questions from both sides of the House...
German gold, including upward of $1 billion stolen from occupied countries, pays for espionage and sabotage, electrical equipment from Switzerland, fine steel from Sweden, cork from Portugal, rare metals such as Spam's wolfram (see p. 17). It could also buy a haven for Nazi bigwigs when & if they try to flee from defeated Germany. To stop such traffic, the Allies have done what they could to make Nazi gold not only worthless but an actual liability to those who deal in it. Announced the U.S. Treasury...