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There was nothing but good to report of the U.S. larder. "Plentiful supplies of most foods are in prospect. . . . More ice cream, cheese, condensed and evaporated milk, fluid cream, canned vegetables and fresh and frozen fish will be available. . . . Eggs and fluid milk will continue plentiful. . . . Chicken, turkey, fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen and dried fruits, potatoes and sweet potatoes and cereal products will continue substantially the same. . . . Supplies of some meats and fats (other than butter) will be larger than before the war. . . . Sugar supplies should improve...
Cold Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
Inside two young Army deserters were eating supper (they had trapped rabbits and had a well-stocked larder of canned goods). Sergeant Harrison arrested the men, marched them away...
Tough little Jimmy Gardiner was pleased as Punch to announce that: 1) the Cabinet had agreed to pay a subsidy on top-grade hogs, to keep up Canada's war-record production of bacon; 2) Britain, which depends on the Canadian larder in wartime only, was dickering for a four-year contract on Canadian bacon...
...Biblical plague of locusts swept the food lands of the Middle East in 1942, threatening disaster to General Montgomery's drive against Rommel, Lend-Lease rushed planes, technicians and insecticides to the scene. They gave the area its first lesson in scientific insect control, and saved the larder of the Eighth Army. >When Axis propaganda implied that Polish and Yugoslav prisoners of the Axis had been forgotten by the United Nations while British and American prisoners received food packets monthly, Lend-Lease acted. It now supplies 56,000 Polish and 140,000 Yugoslav prisoners with an eleven-pound food...