Word: canning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown Russian woman : "Through the window the grass looks so green. . . . Indiana has had much rain in the past few weeks, but truly, I am thankful for it. ... It does look as though we would have a bumper strawberry crop. Our berries are the Premiers, fine for shortcakes, canning and preserves...
...Done." The fight within OPA was typically illustrated in an argument over sugar for home canning. Messrs. O'Leary and Rowe said there was not enough sugar to give housewives an extra supply; consumers must give up a lot of ration coupons to get canning sugar. The slide-rulers stubbornly insisted nothing else would work. But Prentiss Brown went to the Agriculture Department and the War Shipping Administration, worked out an arrangement to import 200,000 tons of Cuba sugar for home canners, who will get it without surrendering ration coupons...
...other industry." For dehydrated meats, practically nonexistent here a year back, requirements approached 60,000,000 Ib. in 1942. "To meet the 1943-44 dehydrated food requirements as presently known," Wyckoff adds, will call for "three-fourths to four-fifths of the vegetables required by the entire canning industry this year. This increase will require every third egg, every twelfth pound of whole milk...
...above-normal bumper crop of peaches, the Department urged the housewives of the country, already canning 50% more than usual (TIME, July 27), to can even more. In the cheese weeks (Aug. 17-29) the Department hopes to liquidate the stock of 165 million pounds of extra American cheddar. Probable best bets in the U.S. kitchen sweepstakes for late August: corn, lima beans, plums and prunes...
...Government agencies were strong for increased home canning, for each jar of fruit put up at home leaves a commercial-pack can for the armed forces, and more freight space for shipping other foods. WPB had provided enough glass jars, paraffin, rubber rings, OPA chipped in the sugar, and, with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup...