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Since tight food rationing began last spring, the small Dixie Market in little Ypsilanti, Mich. (1940 pop. 12,000), hard by the Willow Run bomber plant, has done a big city business. For 10½| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week. Yet the store has never collected a ration stamp from a customer. For the Dixie Market deals only in unrationed groceries...
Raymond Hart went to Ypsilanti and while studying the situation there (35 stores), he worked at Willow Run for two months. When rationing of canned goods and other foods turned many a small grocer into a coupon-counting insomniac, he launched his pointless store. He shrewdly stocked an 18-by-60-ft. store with hundreds of unrationed items, included "something almost as good" for all rationed foods. For butter and oleomargarine he had apple butter, honey and tomato preserves; for meat, chicken and turkey a la king (in glass jars), fish flakes, packaged spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce; dehydrated...
...Londoners have counted nearly 100 plant varieties growing in their city's bomb cavities. Most common is the rosebay willow herb. Some like to believe the plants spring from forgotten, centuries-old seed churned up by Nazi high explosive...
...clock evening session the Red Gate Players will show to the subscribers to the Institute the classic drama of old China, featuring "The Legend of the Willow Plate " in five scenes...
...irreplaceably lovely, has been destroyed. Bombs have created unexpected and delightful views; St. Paul's stands out as St. Peter's does in Rome, and one can see it to great advantage from distant open spaces. . . . Many hideous buildings make quite respectable ruins. From the rubble purple willow herb grows luxuriantly, and in one place I know of bracken is sprouting out of sandbags. . . . In Victoria Street a breed of ducklings has grown up comfortably from a nest in the rubble. Above all, for the first time in our lives, there is a sense of space...