Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rationing milk. There was no lack of milk for thirsty children; homes, hospitals, relief agencies got their milk deliveries as usual. But panicky mothers, fearing the milk supply would be shut off, tried to stock up. The 40% of New York's milk that goes into ice cream, butter, cheese and evaporated milk was cut to a trickle. The Dairy Farmers' Union had called a strike, choked off some 3,000,000 of New York City's normal 7,000,000 quarts...
...strike was called, Squire Young announced that he would withhold his milk from the market, churn it to butter. Then he issued a statement explaining the issues behind the strike. Said...
...submarine circled about the captain's boat. A Nazi sailor gave the men four tins of ersatz bread, two tins of butter. Said the Nazi commander: "I'm sorry, but you were carrying supplies to my country's enemy." The German promised to radio the Robin Moor's position. Then he slid away into...
Last week General Hans Geisler, commander of the independent air unit of the Luftwaffe which has been based near Catania, Sicily, since December, wrote an extraordinary bread-&-butter letter to the Italian Prefect of Catania...
...third of the nation still cannot afford to eat enough good food. About 10,000,000 of the most needy are now reached through the Surplus Marketing Administration, which gives free lunches to school children, provides stamps for free butter, eggs, pork products, fruits, vegetables, flour, cereals. But the number of free foods may soon be curtailed. Even as the delegates talked, newspapers reported that butter had been taken off the Stamp Plan...