Word: lard
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...Peru, a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once: if she did, she would have no excuse to stay at the market and gossip...
...Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products, another $250,000,000 for poultry and eggs...
...Food transferred to England included, among other items, 90,000,000 Ib. of pork, 110,000,000 Ib. of dried beans and lard, 50,000,000 lb. of eggs...
...Creek Seminoles live in 20 scattered camps, "cluttered with dogs, pigs, chickens and small children, through which mélange the women calmly move." Though every good matron owns an antique Singer sewing machine, their other modern conveniences are rarely more than battered old lard pails. Of their social structure Spoehr writes...
...industry will be told of the international emergency. They will be advised to change their crop plans from the five great domestic basic crops-cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice -over to the produce the world needs more desperately-dairy products (milk, eggs, butter, cheese), pork (and lard), beef, fruits, vegetables. They will not be told that they are entering the first phase of the most drastic change in U.S. farm economy since the invention of the harvester...