Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumanians agreed to eliminate "parasitic" industries, grow grain for Germany. British war equipment, sent to strengthen weak-chinned King Carol as an ally, will be shipped to Germany. Sharing the honor of Axis membership, Rumanians were also asked to share its fasting-three meatless meals weekly and practically no butter as large quantities were consigned to the butter-starved Reich. Germans guarding the Ploesti oil field saw three wells burn, firmly declared the fires were accidental, not sabotage...
Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flag-the South Pole...
...subjects are not at all surprised when he pops out of his palace in the morning and runs to a dairy shop to buy butter for the royal breakfast tray-if he were merely to ask for it, he says, palace red tape would keep him waiting until dinner time. Like the Little King, he loves simple pleasures. Once a year he retires to a floating pavilion next to his palace for 30 days' meditation, but no sooner has he entered with great pomp than he scoots out the back door, dallies 29 days with his 100 wives...
Cline noticed that the German blockade had not affected the food situation in England and that rationing applied only to sugar, butter, bacon, and ham to prevent a shortage in case of crisis in the future. Plenty of all foods could always be obtained without a ration card in restaurants...
...plan (which the Nazis had borrowed) for mobilizing industry, but M-Day had not arrived-the U. S. was arming for defense, not war. So Bill Knudsen and his six fellow commissioners had to build a strange, specialized plane-ship-&-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast bread-&-butter economy, which had to go on working. The President had given the Commission no legal power to do anything. All they could do was advise, suggest, request-no more. They did not even have a boss. Franklin Roosevelt kept that post for himself...