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...more than one (i) inch of cod or udder fat shall be left on the flank side of the loin. The 10-inch measurement shall be made from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra and not from the hollow of the chine bone where the 13th rib joins the 13th thoracic vertebra." Said Nebraska's Senator Hugh A. Butler: "The whole thing's nutty...
Some reasons for this startling sobriety: hard training makes hangovers all but unendurable; strict penalties for drunkenness (30 days in the guardhouse at Randolph Field); liquor curfew hours in some towns adjacent to camps; sale of 3.2 beer in camp canteens (in World War I camps were bone dry and bootlegging was rife...
...takes a hell of a lot of paperwork to run the Army, Navy and Air Force; there's no getting away from that point. At the same time, it seems rather doubtful that there is enough administration and brittle-bone work to warrant the creation of all these female forces and shake-ups in the home lives of countless families. After all, what is home without a woman...
...Atlantic Charter Wilhelmina thus gave bone, meat, flavor. The new commonwealth, said she, "will leave no room for discrimination according to race or nationality. Only the ability of the individual citizens and the needs of the various groups of the population will determine the policy of the Government...
Weather had delayed the Allies. Tunisia's brief rainy season had flooded roads, complicated supply problems. But worse than the rain in Africa's grey skies were Axis planes that pummeled Anderson's forward columns, pounded his bases at Bougie and Bone, trying to disrupt his communications. Only scraps of information came from General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters, but it was apparent that the battle of Tunisia so far had been a struggle for control...