Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tear yourself down after you've been building yourself up on the snowy slopes," mumbled Vag to his drinking companion. "But on second thought this isn't so bad." He made a significant gesture towards the glassed-in counter which housed slices of Swiss cheese, salami, bologna, knackwurst, brockwurst, blood pudding and other samples of the Wursthaus larder...
Prosecutor Vakhlin, according to the same source, stole a collective cow from the Red Partisan Collective Farm. He had it processed into bologna, and invited the members of his committee to eat it with him. In due time, the committee decided that the time had come for the prosecutor himself to be prosecuted. Charge: he had not only stolen the cow, but pocketed the proceeds...
...logic, said the Soviet press, Comrade Vakhlin was expelled from the party and fired from his job. Later, for unstated reasons, he was reinstated in the party and is now trying to practice law. But, runs the coy official moral, "the cow won't be reincarnated and the bologna has been eaten." Minimum meaning: Siberia is vast, and there is always room there for another Russian...
...Honolulu, the Army put up for sale 72,000 pounds of bologna, 109 pairs of spurs, 28 saddles, 115,000 antichap lipsticks, 1,000 suits of ladies' long underwear treated to withstand mustard...
Throughout the nation housewives who did not get to butchers' counters early were in luck if they found bologna or frankfurters. Thousands of housewives could find no butcher shop open in their neighborhoods. The National Association of Retail Meat Dealers estimated that at least 36,000 butchers had closed; many had dismissed their employes indefinitely. In Olympia, Wash., most butchers opened only two days a week - and hoped that a little something to sell would come along. In all Boston there was not enough beef to stock one good-sized meat store. In Maine there was a sharp increase...