Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the housewives got an inkling of a bitter truth: they were face to face with the most serious butter shortage in the history of a country that once overflowed with milk. The huge stocks of butter in storage were almost gone, and just beginning was winter, when butter production normally sinks to the lowest levels of the year...
Housewives hurried from store to store, hunting butter. Sometimes they got a quarter pound for Christmas. Oftener they got the grocer's excuse: deliveries from his wholesaler had been cut a fourth or a half, and his small stocks had long ago been sold...
...Chicago was almost out of butter and lard. Also short were prepared flour, vegetable shortenings, macaroni, canned meat...
...York, beef stocks were 35% of normal, may be exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...
...Detroit, canned fish, spaghetti, beans and soups were hard to get. The city faced an almost meatless Christmas, because quotas had been set on the basis of 1941 population, took no account of the new 336,000 population increase (TIME, Dec. 14). Butter dealers got 20% of their orders. Seventeen of Detroit's 18 packing houses closed for lack of meat...