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These dried foods in mass production will be 20% cheaper than ordinary foods, because they need not be graded for size or selected for beauty or packed in tin; and shipping and handling is simplified. When water is added and the food warmed up (not cooked again), it is best served, of course, as sauces, soups, pie fillings, etc. Food powders make good mashed potatoes-far better than the dark, gooey "shoeblack" potatoes dehydrated for the U.S. Army in World War I by some 15 processors, few of whom, with their crude techniques, survived the peace.* Though Army quartermasters...
...hear this kind of trash I can't help thinking of a little boy shouting at the local bully "Just you wait till my big brother gets after you." Another thing, don't forget that these songs are the product of that lucre-loving, back-stabbing boulevard known as Tin Pan Alley. Therefore, they are by definition a commodity, written, composed, and played in a commercial rather than a patriotic spirit. Finally, I don't think it's quite fair to America to call them American songs-- they're not even Japanese...
...Tin Pan Alley turned out a song for the Free French-I'm a Soldier of De Gaulle, by the French-descended radio singer Conrad Thibault (published by Mills Music, Inc.). United Free France (De Gaulle agency in the U.S.) accepted the song as "official." Copies were sent to General de Gaulle in London, to Free French headquarters in Beirut (Syria) and Brazzaville (French Equatorial Africa). Sample English chorus...
...burden for Lend-Lease: The British depended heavily upon their Far Eastern tin and rubber exports for much of the dollar exchange, which they still need. The Empire's pre-Pearl Harbor contribution (exclusive of the United Kingdom itself): some $50,000,000 a month...