Word: larding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold storage, from the squat, thick-walled ice houses of villages to the glistening refrigerator plants of big cities, are record stocks of vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and cheese, frozen chickens, near-record stocks of beef, pork, slabs of lard. Stored in farmers' dirt-walled cellars, or in the basements of city groceries, is a profusion of potatoes, cabbages, onions, apples, turnips, rutabagas, yams...
...Anecdotes told by Merchant Marcus at the Boston Distribution Conference (TIME, Oct. 20): A silversmith refused to make 40 tea sets because, while making one set was fun, making 40 sets would be hard work; 2) a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once until she had had her fill of gossip...
...England arrived a ship whose entire hold had been turned into an icebox by insulating bottom and sides with boxes of frozen lard, filling with frozen meat, covering with more lard. U.S. meat packers had solved the problem of scarce refrigerator space. They had also killed two birds with one stone, since England needs both meat & lard...
...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...