Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After midnight and three doses of wilted but invigorating ice cream, Vag decided to go home. "Isn't it wonderful?" he meditated. "Four more of these and my feet will be flat enough...
...devours the unlimited funny papers he did not expect to find in jail, reported happily to newsmen: "I ate cookies and ice cream...
...they are officially regarded as strategic morale-builders. Cigarets are being produced in the most enormous, quantities in history (though they are also being taxed at record levels); cigars and pipe tobacco are booming, too. WPB has gone on record as considering that basic cosmetics (powder, rouge, lipstick, cold cream) are "essential"-though favorite brands and esoteric colors and concoctions may disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened...
...Chief cause of ulcers is excess production of hydrochloric acid, which erodes the lining of the stomach. (This abnormal flow of acid is usually produced by constant worrying, emotional upsets.) Standard medical treatment for ulcers consists of many small meals of bland, semiliquid foods based on milk & cream. Thus the stomach, frequently filled, has small chance to consume itself, and the ulcer, like other sores, gradually heals. But this treatment, said Dr. Winkelstein, does not go far enough. Between meals the acid continues its destructive work, especially at night, time of greatest acid flow in ulcer patients...
Dainties. In London, British cooks at U.S. Army Headquarters did what they could to improvise "American dishes" for the officers, came up with items that included cream of peanut-butter soup, canned corn with syrup, macaroni salad...