Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parry & Thrust. In Parry Sound, Ont, Russian Philip Malar stabbed Austrian Ted Kamanarski with a butcher knife, explained to the police that his offense...
Everywhere is the contrast between hunger and extravagance. Thousands eat nothing but dried beans, carrots or potatoes boiled in water. But those who have the money can get black market meat in every butcher shop; eggs at 25 francs apiece; snowy cakes bootlegged by confiseurs. The Flea Market is now a speakeasy for costly groceries...
Meat rationing ended in Canada last week. Surprisingly, there was no rush for butcher shops, no frenzied buying. In some cities, meat sales actually fell off. Canadians who did buy mostly wanted ham and bacon, the meats on which restrictions had been tightest...
...Another ex-CBS man, a peacetime vice president, is Lieut. Commander Harry C. Butcher, General Eisenhower's personal aide...
...part of war as death & taxes. Fifty million men in the world have left the fields and factories to fight, but still the U.S. stoutly held to the fiction that a high standard of diet can be preserved in wartime. Restaurants served juicy steaks and thick lamb chops; butcher shops were well stocked with pork roasts; the egg market groaned under such a flood of eggs that the War Food Administration, to support the price, bought eggs by the carload...