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...Continued pinch in sugar, pepper, chocolate...
Bulges and Wedges. The wedges were the crux of the Americans' recovery from Rundstedt's initial successes. They were also by this week the crux of U.S. hopes to pinch off the bulges. The wedges had been held, in great part, by small units of U.S. troops who kept their heads in the first break, stood their ground, died rather than retreat. There were infantry men in foxholes who fought until tanks ground over them...
...good on these sugary promises is because another well-intentioned promise went sour. The War Shipping Administration promised that more ships would be available to haul sugar into the U.S. from Cuba, where warehouses are bulging with 1,000,000 tons, bought & paid for by the U.S. But the pinch in shipping is still too tight. Furthermore, U.S. beet-sugar growers harvested only 1,100,000 tons this year-more than last year, but still a big 500,000 tons less than the 1942 crop. Also, in 1944 about 900,000 tons of Cuban production were diverted from sugar...
...entailed a fearsome food bill. Since there were plenty of men to go around, girls did not worry about their figures. Appetites were hearty--women heartless. The order of the day ran, "The way to a girl's heart is her stomach." The Copley, the Ritz, or, in a pinch, the Statler, was the only place to dine. And when a college girl went out, she went to dine...
...like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge (see cut) or cargo...