The Press: Report on the Nation

Back in North Africa last week after a vacation, Roving Reporter Ernie Pyle was asked so often by soldiers about life back home that he wrote down his estimate for stay-at-homes to read:

". . . There are a couple of meatless days a week in many places and steaks are very scarce. Yet I know places in Washington where you can get steak every night. They are not black-market either. It's almost impossible to buy liquor by the bottle, but you can still get plenty by the drink. Sure, you can get milk and eggs, too.

"Most of your circle of men...

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