Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having long expected to face the grim choice between guns and butter...
...their real problem was Defense. Retailing, they knew, would be the first salient in the as-yet-undrawn line between guns & butter in a war economy. They are in the butter business; how would it fare...
...story book world we live in, if we just know where to find the stories. Harvard has had its Copey and Kitty and Irving Babbitt, its arch-patriotic presidents and its bad butter. Given time our section men, still damp behind the cars, will grow beards, and be venerable and beloved; but why wait so long? One of the best stories is to be had now, west end of the Indoor Athletic Building, Fencing Room...
...Belgium the bread ration had been cut to eight ounces daily, meat to two ounces (including bone) a day. There was no butter, no lard, no coffee, little sugar. In France even Marshal Pétain had to dig out his out his ration card for the waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied...
...tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked...