Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...included snails, lobster, frogs' legs, crabs, trout and caviar in their menus while promising their customers succulent Schweinebraten and Wiener Schnitzel to be carved from one million Danish pigs and 10,000 cattle condemned for slaughter because of a fodder shortage. Supplies from Denmark and Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises of shipments from Alsace-Lorraine. An average of 100 railway carloads of fresh vegetables arrived...
Reconstruction. Meanwhile, in Vichy, Petain and his Cabinet methodically set about the task of rebuilding ravaged France. There were shortages of almost everything needed to keep life going: milk and butter, meat, sugar, soap, raw materials in general. Some foods were plentiful, but were withheld from hungry citizens by the breakdown of communications. Virtually all gasoline was in German hands; so were the northern coal mines, undamaged by the Nazi advance. Coffee and other imports were scarce...
...Manhattan, balding, moon-faced Exile Carl Joachim Hambro, for 15 years president of the Storting (Norwegian parliament), explained Norway's vulnerability to the Nazi attack: "Perhaps we loved butter better than guns...
...vast and variegated job of rearming the U. S. the part that U. S. industry must play is vast and variegated enough. It means building a strange, specialized, plane-ship-and-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast, sluggish bread-&-butter economy, and meshing them. Yet the first step needed for the industrial job was by last week clear: constructing new plant and equipment. But, after seven weeks of hard desk work and high talk in Washington, few new factories for war materials had taken shape...
...Nazi soldiers were so ultra polite that Parisians saw in their conduct an implied criticism of their own customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour for pastry, and forbidding the serving of butter in restaurants were issued. Money was scarce as banks remained closed and there was talk of municipal scrip being issued. With over 1,200,000 persons jobless in the Paris area alone, and soldiers and refugees returning by the thousand, the economic situation threatened to become more alarming than...