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Down below us on the river was a large ship, and out of it came bursts of fire; balls of red flecked with white began shooting toward our plane. Japanese ack-ack guns and pom-poms were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us. Then our plane began to tremble and shake, and from our belly red balls of fire began shooting down toward the Jap ship. Puffs of white smoke flowered in the air far below our plane. They were so far away I couldn't help laughing, but plainly we could see our tracers going straight...
...another thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert a fig or a couple of olives. Dogs, cats, even rats are the only meats to be found; three pounds of donkey meat, which tastes like kitchen soap, costs about...
...from young people coming of age, 10,000,000 from civilian industry, 700,000 from the farms, 600,000 by hiring people who used to run small businesses of their own. This leaves a shortage of 5,500,000 that will be made up by taking women from the kitchen and the bridge table, by drawing workers and soldiers from the so-called "leisure" class...
...paper it should be easy enough to recruit 5,500,000 added workers from somewhere. A WPA survey estimated that 7,600,000 nonworkers (92% women) might be induced to forsake kitchen or lounge for office and factory, and another 5,700.000 (72% women) might accept part-time jobs...
Eating facilities could not be provided for the officers, however, and the University has found it necessary to urge that the Army construct a suitable mess hall and kitchen for the new group. To date permission for this project has not been received from Washington and the movement of the school waits such an order...