Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back - with the Bacon...
...that everybody at the national table gets a helping by making the servings small. Since the war's start nearly 1,500 communal feeding centers for the poor have been opened, 200 in London alone. Some 18,000 pig clubs are producing 3,000 tons of "backyard" bacon a year. Little heavy or bulky food is brought in from abroad. The result of these measures, plus the fact that over 4,000,000 new acres have gone into production, is that Britain is able to get along, although her ships carry 50% less food cargo than...
...drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium." Powerless to move in her steel brace, she heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little...
...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
Bangle King brought home the bacon for the ski team this weekend with a fourth in the downhill on the Nosedive and a 13th in the slalom to take a combined sixth place in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association's meet at Mount Mansfield, Vermont, this weekend...