Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hirohito remained a model Shinto sovereign-conventional, secluded, aloof, a proper family man as well as national deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality set an example to all. He had his underwear thriftily mended, cut imported cigarets and wine from the palace list...
...Faith Bacon, ecdysiast extraordinary (she has used fans, fawns, feathers, flowers), sued the University of California for three sexy, pseudo-Grecian statues left it by Founder Henry Douglas Bacon, from whom she claims descent. Her demand: either remove the statues (which she has never seen) from storage in a University basement, or give them to her. The University decided to give. Weight of the overwhelming gift: nine tons...
...himself an old truck, and a "partner" who knew something about meat. Within three weeks he had bought from wholesalers (at about double the ceiling prices) nearly 1,300 pounds of beef, 176 pounds of veal, 250 pounds of smoked hams and pork shoulders, 225 pounds of bacon. A ton of meat was his goal, and he made it-without ever paying a red point. To show it could be done, he also bought 10,000 red stamps in the black market, at the going price of $6 a thousand...
...somebody called "the greatest quartermaster since Moses" reduced the weekly diet of every bacon-loving, tea-bibbing Briton to four and two ounces respectively, his sugar to eight ounces, meat to a shilling-and-tuppence worth (about 26?), fats to eight ounces, and milk to two and a half pints.* Woolton got Britons to tighten their belts and live with the notches permanently drawn in. To the Bill and Lizzie Smiths across the length & breadth of the British Isles the name Woolton stood for honest control without favoritism, or, in his own Lancashire idiom, for "a fair do all round...
They bought dress goods, rubbers and overshoes, canned goods, cosmetics. They bought Canadian cigarets at 35? a pack. But most of all they wanted meat. With arms laden with bacon, beef, ham, canned meats, chicken, and even rabbit, they headed back to the U.S. On the Detroit side of the Detroit River, they filled the U.S. customs office to overflowing...