Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the ferries, fitted out with such conveniences as breakfast bars, chugged up & down the Willamette River with an average 5% load. The Boilermakers' Union refused to "force" its members to use this Government-provided transportation. The Kaiser Co. said nothing, for fear of losing workers. The Maritime Commission brought no pressure on unions, company, or the ration boards. Tires and gasoline burned...
...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...
Many of the Councils recommendations have already gone into effect. Dunster men now have seconds on non-rationed vegetables, a non-meat choice at every fish meal, and a choice of coreals is offered at breakfast. Adams reported a general improvement in the food since the open meeting a week ago Saturday, while Lowell, only civilian House not to make a formal complaint, has already had the requested open sandwiches...
...request for plane priority. Flying time is remarkably fast in these wartime days. Duncan Norton-Taylor left Australia Tuesday morning, crossed the international date line, reached San Francisco early Thursday. And when Edward Lockett flew in from London last week he had lunch in Scotland-dinner in Iceland -breakfast in New York...
Newsmen learned that Roosevelt, who likes to work mornings, and Churchill, who likes to work over a Scotch & soda at night, had reached a compromise. They worked late, but got up for an 8:30 breakfast and began working again. One day they went fishing for the speckled trout...