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...dogs, the soldier's choice of meat. Horrors! Soldiers prefer, first of all, steaks of any kind, secondly, roast beef or pork. "Coffee weak, prefers cocoa to coffee." I can hardly stand that one. Army coffee, if you can call it that, is never weak, but is so strong it eats your throat out (in a delicious manner) as it goes down...
...that may now be told is that shipments of food and small luxuries are getting through. In 1941 and 1942 the Red Cross forwarded $6,000,000 worth of supplies to United Nations prisoners and U.S. civilian internees. The standard package for prisoners: powdered milk, cheese, oleomargarine, corned beef, pork, liver pâté, canned salmon, dried prunes, orange concentrate, biscuits, chocolate bars, sugar, Nescafé, cigarets. Also welcome : eight tons of insecticide...
...hotel room full of holes got an explanation from his 60-year-old wife: somebody had insulted her, and "Lewis was just showing me what he'd do." In The Bronx, Thomas Cunningham, charged with shooting steadily through a neighbor's window at a can of corned beef, explained that the neighbor had been eying his daughter. In Chicago, Gilbert Hayashi explained to police why he had been shooting at his roommate with a bow and arrow: "I am interested in archery...
...Indiana: Even with normal weather, corn will be off 5%-10%; soybeans 15%; milk 2%-5%. More beef animals will be sold, but at weights below 1942. > Iowa: The State has an alltime record number of livestock on farms, but grains will...
...Next to frankfurters the soldier likes baked ham. Then roast veal and sausage. Fifteen per cent of all roast beef, bacon and cold cuts goes back to the kitchen, 25% of liver. Never strong for green vegetables, the soldier especially detests kale. He likes baked potatoes next to mashed...