Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minute Men. What was now left of Norway's bacon, was now saved by King Haakon's pluck, and by an old American fighting custom. King Haakon refused to countenance "Premier" Quisling, exhorted his people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital...
...Denmark, Herr Hitler got something good. Denmark produces one-half of the entire world supply of bacon, one-quarter of the butter, one-quarter of the eggs. Its economy is 35% agricultural and, like neither Norway nor Sweden, it is almost self-sufficient. Denmark grows most of the fodder needed to feed its 564,000 horses, 2,845,000 pigs, 3,183,000 cattle, 27,600,000 cocks and hens. By "protecting" Denmark, Germany assured itself of a margin of food for want of which the German population might have revolted. The Danes themselves were rationed to a maximum four...
After the first half of the lecture, Mallinckrodt MB9 became a virtual battle-field with every type of powder from Roger Bacon's original sulphur, saltpeter, and charcoal formula to the present high-explosive, gun-cotton, in prominent display and usage...
...second boat stands: Car Comstock, stroke; Norm Bacon, seven; Ted Lyman, six; Frank Hinckley, five; Tony Villa, four, Behn Riggs, three; Colt Wagner, two; Paul; Pennoyer...
...were sent back uneaten when 208 people were served. At Eliot House on that same day 238 people were served, and 49 orders of stewed tomatoes were returned to the kitchen. The Committee believes after canvassing a large number of students that the preparation of these vegetables and of bacon and eggs is such that it would be impossible to operate the dining halls without a guaranteed patronage...