Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad outlines of the book serve admirably to draw together the divergent threads which have been unravelling all over the Washington landscape. It brings out the sober facts about how much butter we will have to sacrifice to get enough guns. It is carefully documented, and goes into thorough detail. But the abundance of facts, and the assumption that the reader can supply the general economic background necessary to understand the relation between scores of separate conclusions makes this guide to the mazes of Defense tough going for the layman. He may wish that his author had given more thought...
...diseases has soared: 1) tuberculosis among young women; 2) industrial poisoning, mostly in munitions factories. ^ So far, no serious dietary deficiency diseases have been observed, although Sir Wilson is sure they will turn up in the future. Although all food is scarce, only the following are rationed: meat, bacon, butter, margarine, cheese, tea, sugar, jam.* All persons must register for milk; mothers and infants get a pint a day, schoolchildren a little more. Although this is low, it is actually more than most of them got before the war, said Sir Wilson. His great worry, he said last week...
Speed was the keynote. The delegates gathered at a luncheon. They churned into six kinds of meat, slushed through bowls of caviar, demolished huge mounds of cheese and butter, knocked down vodka, port and Madeira, wolfed dessert. Then, just in case they might feel sluggish, they drank Russian cocktails...
...Lease appropriation in a hurry. So far the total Lend-Lease expenditures for farm products actually turned over to Britain comes to some $200,000,000. Britons, said Wickard, now get only about three eggs per person a month, four ounces of cured pork a week, eight ounces of butter or butter substitutes, half as much animal-protein food as they need. Even with the extra milk, cheese, canned tomatoes, dried beans, fruit, corn and pork that the $1,000,000,000 will supply, Britain will still fight on short rations...
...first Raja was succeeded by his nephew, Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, a lusting, jungle-loving buck. Sir Charles used to think dinner an unnecessary and expensive meal, but he relented on his wedding night and bought his bride bread, butter and tea. Sir Charles in due course died (although his ghost still haunts the palace, says his daughter-in-law), to be succeeded by his son, the present Raja...