Word: jj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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December hath jj days. . . . As the hard bitterness of cold descends, the heart should warm to home fires. . . . Have you poultry lights in the henhouse...
...victory." Seeking also to cut home consumption not only of food but of nonessential articles, the Board of Trade restricted by two-thirds the supply of 600 such items as brassieres, suspenders, pajamas, floral waters and pomades; hoped thereby to release factories and labor (see p. jj) for war production. At the same time, London's posh Savoy Grill served its last supper, shut up shop "for economic reasons." Only bright news to a nation sternly taking in its belt: this year's strawberry crop is "the best since William the Conqueror...