Word: larders
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Only the Government was to blame. In 1942, when the Allied larder began to run low, the Administration, backed by Congress, decided to encourage more food production by guaranteeing 90% of parity prices to growers of potatoes and other agricultural commodities. To make sure the offer would be taken, Congress extended the guarantee until two years after the "termination of hostilities...
...bleak Nichol Island, off Nova Scotia's east coast, a lone white house stands above the rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...
...Empty Larder. President Lewis Clark of the turbulent young C.I.O. meat packers' union had also called out his men. The cattle-pens of Chicago were nearly empty. The big four's refrigerators were bare of their hams and sides of beef, once the envy of a hungry world. Housewives were stampeding butcher shops...
White House mail piled higher & higher. The larder bulged with Christmas gifts of plum pudding, wild turkey, venison, duck, pheasant and guinea hen. Tinseled wreaths filled the White House windows with color. Outside, the national Christmas tree towered over the frozen south lawn...
...Hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane and propane, often leak in small quantities through the cap rock above an oil pool. When they reach the surface soil, bacteria lap them up, thrive and multiply. By looking for such bacteria, or signs of their past activity, geologists may smell out their larder, the oil pool down below...