Word: lard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lend-Lease lard reached Moscow, the housewives thought it too precious for cooking, used it as a bread spread...
Sausages and Airplanes. Without official reminders, Russian pilots know when it is U.S. planes they are flying, soldiers when it is U.S. shoes they wear, housewives when they use U.S. flour, sugar, lard and canned meats. New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker went to a Moscow "gastronom" where the grocer told him: "Of course, we have had the American goods here. Not a lot; I should say about 10% of the total over six months...
...Chicago was almost out of butter and lard. Also short were prepared flour, vegetable shortenings, macaroni, canned meat...
...produce cotton, the one perfect wartime crop that produces food, fiber and shot. Compound lard, high explosives, stock feed, clothing, plastics, isinglass for planes and thousands of other products are produced from cotton. Very few articles can be made from soybeans that cannot also be made from cotton seed. We can grow more pounds of cotton seed per acre than we can soybeans, and we can harvest the cotton seed...
Meantime the "Lidice Lives" Committee of the Writers' War Board (executive chairman: Fadiman) got a little tap on the knuckles from Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec. The town of Frelighsburg, Quebec, announced the committee, would change its name to Lidice. But Frelighsburg had not been informed, and shortly Premier Godbout announced simply: Frelighsburg will be Frelighsburg and Clifton Fadiman will be Clifton Fadiman...