Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everywhere, some of them on leave to meet their wives or sweethearts in the provincial cities.) Food, of course, is scarce-not so scarce as to be unhealthy or even a serious problem for ordinary people, but scarce enough so one can never forget the subject (a sliver of butter with each meal; perhaps no butter at all would be easier to bear). As for clothes, English women have never been famous for their chic and now they seem to have abandoned the attempt. Cigarets are really scarce. Movies come at inconvenient times...
Canadian wages are frozen; so are manufacturers' wholesale prices and the retail prices of everything in Canada, from popguns to butter. The man responsible is 40-year-old Donald Gordon, self-educated Scots immigrant who is chairman of Canada's Wartime Prices and Trade Board...
...these ceilings were unjust, adjustments would be made later. If such a level had been proclaimed two years ago, says Baruch, a billion arguments, frustrations, delays and inequities would have been saved the U.S.-not to mention billions of taxpayers' dollars in the rising costs of everything, from butter to guns...
Planted wherever lettuce will grow, celtuce grows with beanshoot speed. Its pale green stalk is tastiest eaten raw with salt. Best way to cook it: boiled, seasoned with salt & pepper, served with butter or "vinaigrette; or baked au gratin. The young leaves qualify for salads...
...concentrated vitamin A. * Nursing mothers need vitamin A to produce milk; babies and adolescents should have it to promote growth; pilots and plane spotters should have it to help prevent night blindness. Extra doses of vitamin A supplement the natural supplies in liver, leafy vegetables, yellow foods like butter, apricots and carrots...