Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening he entertained the Germans at a dinner and reception at the Soviet Embassy. Having listened for two full days and publicly committed himself to nothing, Comrade Molotov next day took a train back to Russia to report to his boss man. At the border he sent a bread-&-butter telegram to Hitler...
...Dunster's day college bills were not paid with money, but with various kinds of foodstuffs. These bills might be paid in wheat, malt, apples, rye, or butter. Cattle, on the hoof, such as cows, oxen, sheep, lambs, and steers, were acceptable; as were cattle slaughtered for meat
...most common order according to Richard Fellows '41, director of the Food sandwich. The most complicated order ever received is a sandwich which consisted of lettuce, tomato, bacon, peanut butter and mustard. The "meandering meatball" service was established by the Student Council in order to satisfy the wants of the night-owls who are not satisfied by the dining hall food...
From Latin America, NBC averages fan mail of 2,000 letters a month, CBS attracts about 1,000. Other letters come from all over the world. Broadcasting in French, Italian and German as well as Portuguese and Spanish, NBC informed Englishmen that their rations of bacon or butter were to be cut before it was known in London, tipped off listeners in Italy that Mussolini was leaving for Brenner Pass 13 hours before the trip was mentioned in Rome...
...their stomachs, food is still a vital war material. With her conquests Germany now holds two-fifths of the green fields of Europe. France gave up the Paris Basin, which normally grew all the wheat she needed. Denmark, Europe's dairy and No. 1 world exporter of butter, was rifled of her stocks of butter, cheese, eggs, fodder, of her farm animals. Belgium, which just manages to feed herself, had no great surplus on hand, but The Netherlands had 2,750,000 head of cattle, 650,000 sheep, half a million pigs, tons of butter, cheese, meat, milk, margarine...