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...vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
...Likes hot dogs better than any other meat, dislikes soup...
...N.M.U. sees in this program a direct threat to its power. Most recruits are pink-cheeked, corn-fed youngsters from the Midwest who have never seen deep water, or been exposed to unionism. They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards. Only 1,000 to 1,500 monthly swing over to N.M.U. This percentage is not big enough if Curran is to hold his grip...
...could not be so-yet it was. After 15 years and some 4,000 airings (not including rebroadcasts), Amos 'n' Andy were scheduled to leave the air next month. Campbell Soup Co., its domestic output halved by the tin shortage, no longer was willing to spend $1,800,000 yearly to sponsor the pair five nights a week...
Time, familiarity, World War II and its problems have cut Amos 'n' Andy's 1939 audience (estimate: 40,000,000 weekly). Their latest Crossley rating is surpassed by about 60 nighttime programs. Even so, Campbell Soup was willing to continue them on a half-hour one-night-a-week basis. But "the boys," as they refer to themselves, were unwilling to swap programs in midseason...