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...remaining able-bodied prisoners into the barracks of the weak and ill, saying that a noon meal would be served there. Two hundred and ninety-five men were crowded into that barracks-40 ft. by 120 ft.-jammed in and the doors locked after big tubs of soup had been brought...
...ritifs were omitted, being unnecessary. The soup course was dispensed with, for lack of ingredients. The salad was absent, black-market prices prohibiting. The main course, occupying a pitifully small central part of the table, consisted of a medium-sized plateful of home-fried potatoes (perhaps five potatoes in all), a two-inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo...
...eating soup and black bread, and a beverage they call...
...been created to put Britain's postwar plans on paper, to coordinate the knotty problem of providing "food, work and homes." The first incumbent would have to be an architect in ideas-and a nonparty man, since no one knew what party would execute his program. For a soup-tasting, handshaking "kind uncle" like Woolton, this was a long leap into the unknown. Reluctantly, and only on Churchill's insistence, he accepted...
Bums in Manhattan's dreary, beery Hell's Kitchen seldom visited the Community Mission. The Mission - two big, bare-walled rooms on the street floors of two houses on West 40th Street - offered the thinnest of soup and sermons. But scores of Hell's Kitchen kids found it a charming place. Every afternoon they were invited inside to play. There were always comic books in the hymnal box; nobody objected if small fry yelled in the gospel hall or rolled empty garbage cans along the front sidewalk...