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While the committee deliberated, OPA decreed emergency rationing of meat in Los Angeles (as in San Francisco and Rhode Island) to alleviate suffering, started criminal action against black markets wherever they could be found. Also California prison officials got State permission to graze cattle in Palomar State Park, the meat to go to Folsom, San Quentin and Chino prisons. Quipped the Los Angeles Times: "How to obtain plenty of meat-become a convict...
...recognize our man of the week more easily and to give them a clue as to why we had chosen him. Perhaps you remember the cover with which this idea really got started-the Christmas cover of the heroic German pastor Martin Niemoller, with the swastika and a Nazi prison camp scene on one side and the Cross and the Nativity on the other...
...19th had fought a costly war continuously from the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Manila (TIME, Dec. 7) until it was relieved in Australia last fall. It had lost 65% of its original strength in battles, crashes and prison camps. Now it was being broken up. Now its battle-seasoned officers and men would be scattered, like so many tough & tested seeds, in the fertile ground of other heavy bombardment crews, squadrons and groups...
...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...
...water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...