Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven the banana situation also seems to be acute. As if specifically to spite Yale's panicky purchasing agents, the Nazi U-boats have been sinking banana boats along the coasts of the Americas. Yale's favorite fruit has thus almost disappeared from the tables of the Commons and the college halls...
...GILDED MAN-Carter Dickson-William Morrow ($2). Sir Henry Merri-vale, in sportive mood, solves the stabbing of an English country gentleman who was struck down with his own fruit knife while robbing his own art gallery. An ironclad puzzle, with some hilarious interludes...
Born in the small town of Rhaunen, near Germany's Ruhr Basin, Kahn arrived in the U.S. as a gangling boy of twelve. Son of an impoverished smalltown Rabbi who peddled fruit for a living on Detroit's streets, young Albert seemed destined to be an infant prodigy musician. But the vicissitudes of fruit peddling made it necessary for young Albert to enter the offices of a Detroit architect as office boy. He was fired from the job because he smelled too strongly of his father's horse, whom he dutifully curried every...
...groan. Reasons: lost imports from 29 countries; the rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...
...role of America's fertile acres in fighting this cruel tyranny is succinctly set forth. They must yield less of the basic peacetime crops (wheat, tobacco, cotton), more of the nutritive foods which raise a people's health to battle strength-fresh meat & vegetables, dairy produce, fruit, eggs, etc. Moreover, they must produce enough of these to feed not only the home front but also its armed forces and allies overseas. Says Food (paraphrasing Secretary of Agriculture Wickard) America's is the "soil which will win the war and write the future...