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...point up the need of meat rationing and coffee rationing and the foolishness of sugar rationing; the end of the aluminum shortage, the approach of the lumber shortage, and the nonexistence of the wool shortage. They foresaw the nationwide crisis in small business and the Washington chaos in raw materials. And months ago they showed that by year's end manpower would emerge as "the one big barrier holding back the U.S. war effort...
...helmet was knocked off. Something struck me in the face. I put my hand to my face and eyes. I felt blood and raw flesh. . . . The Japs in the trees fired a steady downpour of bullets that chipped up dirt all around us and ripped through our sandbags. ... I strained my eyes for a, glimmer of light, but I couldn...
Training was not the only problem for Eisenhower and his staff. A big army of raw soldiers who had not yet learned all about discipline, who were spoiling for a fight, who were homesick, young and frequently rowdy, posed a problem in itself...
Testified Vassili Ivanovich Vikhorov: "My father, my mother, my sister, my daughter, aunt and uncle all died of hunger. ... I ate dead horsemeat. I chewed the raw leg of a horse I found in a field. It made me ill. Sometimes I ate the bark of trees. The Nazis did not give us anything...
...decide whether he makes or loses money for the duration. The board scans the books and the company's records, checks & double-checks for the six major factors: 1) production quality, 2) delivery rate, 3) inventive contribution, 4) cooperation with other manufacturers, 5) economy in the use of raw materials, 6) efficiency...