Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ranee got a letter, from Australia. Excerpt: "I limit myself to one drink a day. I have it with two pals who are also dead broke owing to the Japs. We have all our meals in a hamburger shop around the corner. We get a hamburger, bread and butter...
Officials yesterday refused to reveal the names of the martyrs who gave up all colored vegetables--carrots, string beans, peas--except beets, and who voluntarily went without beef, chicken, and ham in the interests of science. So rigorous was the test that they would not have milk, butter, or eggs for half a year...
Russia, whose need is even greater. Restaurants have not served real butter for months, and portions of margarine are half the size of a postage stamp and nearly as thin. Bread is still plentiful, but last week a National Loaf was introduced, consisting of one-quarter white flour and three-quarters whole wheat. Nearly all milk is reserved for children, grownups being allowed only three pints weekly...
...Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...
...entertained her 'lover' on those days." ^ M. Corre, the conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn German and become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...