Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tottering Empire," we'll let that go. But very few of us here have any doubts whatever about one thing: that it will almost certainly be called upon to perform again all by itself for a couple of years, the next time the world's bacon needs saving...
...receiving top rations, he can buy a lunch of vegetable soup with a little meat at the mine daily. If he fulfills his production quota, increased under a speedup bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been able to buy their flour ration since Christmas...
...Bacon & Bituminous. One of the Hannover Mine's two directors, blond, youthful Mining Engineer Erich Ricken, who knows most of his men by their first names, gives this simple picture of the Ruhr coal production problem: "There are 300,000 miners in the Ruhr. What they need more than anything else is fats. Give each of them an extra pound of bacon every week. You would need 600 tons of bacon monthly. Figuring 25 working days, that means 24 tons of bacon per day. To pay for 24 tons of bacon every day you'd need...
...members of the committee are: Richard G. Axt '46, Carter S. Bacon '46, Thomas D. Connolly '45, Francis Cunningham, Jr. '44, Robert L. Hale '46, David D. Harrower '45, Jerome Preston '44, and Edwin R. Rooney...
...ERNST BACON...