Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flunkies and guards were 22,000 lb. of meat, 1,000 lb. of coffee, 17,000 lb. of bread, 78,000 eggs, 740 lb. of tea, 5,000 cans of milk, 800 lb. of turkey, 4,600 lb. of sugar, 19,000 lb. of potatoes, 5,000 cans of fruit, 1,000,000 cigarets, 3,000 cigars...
Meatless. In Washington, the War Food Administration made out its usual paychecks to Employes Mary Bean, George Fruit, Maybert Corn, Samuel G. Salmon, Esther Olive, William Meal and Fairfax Oyster. Mr. Oyster is an expert on peanuts...
...black ship is in Pearl Harbor for censored days. One day she is moored at the slip, her deck littered with broken boxes of fruit brought aboard at the moment of her arrival, her crew sprawled around reading mail from home-"sugar reports"-which is priority business. Then she is off again for the Empire...
Until last week, Author Carl Crow's reputation rested on his richly flavored understanding of the Chinese, his long-term hatred of the Japs. His 400 Million Customers (1937), the fruit of his 26 years of successful journalism and advertising in the Orient, became a best-seller in nine languages. But this week Carl Crow's twelfth book-The Great American Customer (Harper; $3)-proved that its author was also an adept in U.S. business history...
...Said the Rev. Donald Selby Wright over BBC: "It is the fruit of a blasphemy of real love-lust...