Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scores of German travel agencies in the U. S., advertising special combinations of gift Pakete in German-language newspapers, handled this traffic. Prices were high. A Pakete containing 2 Ibs. of butter, 2 Ibs. of cheese, 2 Ibs. of condensed milk, 1 Ib. of lard, ½Ib. of coffee, ½Ib. of cocoa cost $5.95. The cost of sending 8 Ibs. of butter: $7.50. (Pounds were German pounds, slightly larger than U. S.) Cost did not discourage senders. Fortra Corp. of Manhattan declared it had placed 30,000 food packages in Germany in less than three months, was doing...
...Germans have methodically looted the land of grain, foodstuffs, cattle, butter, swine, horses. Jewish and Polish property has been confiscated indiscriminately. Vast concentration camps have been set up and at least 300,000 young Poles, many of them former soldiers in the Polish Army, have been conscripted for labor in the Reich. Jews have been forced to wear identifying clothing (generally yellow arm bands), are largely confined to ghettos. Thousands of Jews, not only from former Polish provinces but also from Bohemia, Germany, Austria, have been dumped unceremoniously, with little food, clothing or money, into a small, not yet defined...
Great Britain last week made two more demonstrations of Empire solidarity against Hitlerism. The first troops from India arrived in a British-held sector of the French front: an all-Moslem contingent of about 200 with their own cooks, water carriers, religious teachers, food-rice, turmeric, ginger, ghi (clarified butter). British supply officers set out to buy livestock, chiefly goats, for the Moslems to slaughter in their own pure...
...spring exports to Germany of whale oil and her ring. In Denmark's case, British control of the fodder imports needed for Danish dairy products has brought about a tacit under standing with Germany whereby, unless Britons can get their Danish breakfast bacon, Nazis shall go without Danish butter...
...earn a minimum salary of $150 a week. (But it's a job in which a couple of lousy breaks might end a career.) They are suspicious characters to the public, which regards them as a kind of licensed liar who cooks up tall tales. Actually, their bread & butter depends on being strictly truthful. The newspapers are their lifeblood, and as Press Agent William Fields once said, "An editor who has been taken in by a press agent never forgets the incident-and shouldn't." A publicity man's style may be tropical, lush, mendacious...