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...Taking. In the hold of the smashed ship were 350,000 cases of canned goods, dehydrated potatoes, cigarets, soap, matches, flour. Lashed to the decks or stored below were locomotives, armored cars, jeeps, trucks, tires. The cargo of U.S. Government material consigned to the Army in Europe was worth more than $3,000,000. It was there for the taking...
...Shape. In Lahore, India, a comedian named Durga Mota, 80 lbs. lighter since rationing began, pleaded from a hospital bed for more food, swore he needed 2 lbs. of flour, 60 cups of tea daily to get back to his customary...
...night passed without a stampede. Next day the British began moving their prisoners off the island to safe territory. At midday they called for volunteer bakers among the captives, and presently found out how the 70th Division had won its nickname. The bakers at once produced their own white flour, began to turn out excellent white bread. It was one of the privileges granted to the 70th, an outfit made up exclusively of men with ulcers, indigestion and other stomach troubles...
...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
Terse. In Kansas, a circular letter advertising flour observed that the Lord's Prayer was written in 71 words, the first chapter of Genesis in 800, the Gettysburg Address in 267, but "the OPA uses 2,500 words to announce a reduction in the price of cabbage seed." Vocational Guidance. In Manhattan, Selective Service Director McDermott insisted the psychoneurotic discharge from the Army did not necessarily mean mental deficiency, declared: "I know of scores of cases of men earning $5,000 to $40,000 a year who were rejected ... on a diagnosis of psychoneurosis...