Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 73
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Cronin
73Marcello:
Cronin:
Marcello:Did they ever issue any articles such as toothpaste
or toothpowder or razor blades or anything of that nature?
The Red Cross had a package. When you came in they gave
you a little cardboard-type suitcase and it had a razor.
I hadn't thought of that until now. It was brownish,
and there was stuff in there. The big thing was food.
We didn't have any food, and in the last analysis, when
they keep you hungry you're going to keep out of trouble,
and they kept us hungry. I remember that. We decided
one time that we would . . . it was a room rule that
you could not talk about food, and that was so terrible
that we decided we would. And I remember writing . . .
the Red Cross to send us some tablets. This is the
idiocy of this stuff. They had tennis rackets and things
like that--but I didn't see those--but never food. They
were keeping that away from us. But in this tablet--I
brought it home--we wrote what sounded good to us. And
if you want to get sick, just read this. I remember I
wanted bananas dipped in milk chocolate. That was one
of them. You get to craving things. But we found it
was better to talk about food.
Did you ever imagine that you could smell a particular
type of food cooking someplace?
Oh, yes. They had a D-bar. Now a D-bar today, you justCronin:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R. Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972, book, February 1, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529237/m1/75/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.