Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White bread-the symbol of American plenty-would have to be displaced by a grey-or cream-colored bread*; the President decreed that wheat flour be made from 80% instead of the normal 70% of the whole grain. Production of whiskey and of other grain alcohol beverages would have to be cut back to wartime levels. Beer brewing would have to be cut by 30% (back to the 1940 rate). The wartime set-aside of pork for Government purchase was reinstated. The President warned the U.S. that it might even have to go back to meat rationing...
...United Auto workers stubbornly fought over the wage and contract issues which have kept the company tied up twelve weeks, at a loss of more than $100,000,000 in wages. Dewey sat in their midst, slouched in his. chair, drumming the table and nodding his grey-thatched head...
...country was facing a slow and perhaps agonizing battle for survival. The second Battle of Britain would not be as dramatic as the first. The skies over the Empire would not be as black as in Churchill's finest, darkest hour; but they would be a lasting grey. The uniquely delicate bonds and balances of the Empire were being strained and upset as never before...
...senior, tnded in divorce, 1939; marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
...cold winter's dawn this week the grey and battered troopship Argentina hove into New York harbor after a nightmare voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers were 451 British wives of American G.I.s, and their 175 children. Nine days before, they had left Southampton alternately singing There'll Always Be an England and God Bless America...