Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butter. The food supply was another source of worry. About 70% of Hawaii's food normally comes from the mainland, ten days' voyage away by freighter. Two years ago, when 241,000 acres of the rich land of the islands were planted in sugar cane, only 695 acres were used for rice, 76 for asparagus, three acres for grapefruit. Since Pearl Harbor, the islands have stored a six months' supply of food in case of siege. But meat is scarce...
...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
...Little White House" at Sea Girt, then ordered an investigation of his quartermaster general's housekeeping operations. Items, in a month, for 20 people: $172 for soda water; averages of $30.23 a day for meat, $22.36 for poultry, $7.83 for lobster, $7.23 for caviar; eleven pounds of butter a day, nine dozen eggs a day. "I would say that was enough eggs," figured the Governor, "for a daily Easter egg roll on the Sea Girt lawn...
...Forty-five thousand pounds of Argentine butter reached Chicago this week. Open-market purchases of butter by the Dairy Products Marketing Association have held domestic prices high enough to enable imported butter to sell for 1? a pound lower than Illinois and Wisconsin butter...
...local and day-to-day expedients, often countermanded by higher authority. There is no law, no system of penalties and rewards. And, everywhere in Occupied Europe, Nazi officialdom is honeycombed with corruption-which seeps into the petty officialdom of the occupied countries. In Paris anything from a pound of butter to an exit permit can be had for a price. (Price of an exit permit to Unoccupied France: 1,500 francs...