They got their name, not from their trailers, but from the canned goods they would live on all winter : potted meats like corned beef, Vienna sausages, baked beans-- the same sort of victuals hurricane victims live on today, during the inevitable blackouts.
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The fax site is at www . citizen . org / / faxserver / / letter2 / / step1 . htm .---A couple is hunkered down in their bomb shelter with a stock of pickled eggs, kilos of toilet paper, potted meat, and breath spray.
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In Delray Beach, a woman who completely lost her home, said she was given only " a few old pieces of clothes and a few cans of tomatoes and potted meat and a small can of milk for myself and kids . " Grace Campbell, a chair of a workers committee, was quoted in " The Chicago Defender " stating that only 20 % of relief was being dispersed to African Americans.
