Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish Government has had to send 28,000 tons of wheat, 7,800 tons of flour, 2,000 tons of oats, 4,000 tons of butter, 12,000 tons of potatoes, 5,000 tons of sugar, much iron and steel to the German armies on the Eastern Front...
William C. Bullitt sent a box of food to imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. "I cannot send you guns," he wrote, "but here is some butter." Crotchety old Bachelor James C. McReynolds, longtime Supreme Court Justice, "adopted" 32 British children, one Belgian. Dorothy Thompson arrived in England for a month's visit "to see my friends . . . for pleasure . . . to know what the British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale...
...Breakfast: strong coffee saturated with sugar, butter sandwiches with sausages and eggs. Soldiers too tired to eat must take cold sponge baths in the morning to stimulate their appetite...
German nutritionists have found, says Dr. Gerson, that doses of artificial vitamins and minerals may act against each other. Example: large doses of vitamin A may drain the body's reserves of C, produce scurvy. The German soldiers get their vitamins in butter, rye bread, yeast extract, soybeans, vegetables, milk...
...nation's No. 1 industry will be told of the international emergency. They will be advised to change their crop plans from the five great domestic basic crops-cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice -over to the produce the world needs more desperately-dairy products (milk, eggs, butter, cheese), pork (and lard), beef, fruits, vegetables. They will not be told that they are entering the first phase of the most drastic change in U.S. farm economy since the invention of the harvester...