Word: lards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into...
Official Shouts. That brought Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan bustling into the market place, shouting "Speculator!" at the top of his lungs. Said he: high commodity prices are the fault of speculators; since the war began, the volume of futures trading has jumped 128% in eggs, 98.2% in lard, 78.6% in wheat and 44.1% in wool tops; prices have increased accordingly, from 5% to 41%. Brannan wanted Congress to give him authority to control margins and thus choke off "unrestrained" speculation...
...Including lean meat, but excluding: meat fat animal lard, butter or whole milk; fatty fish such as salmon; egg yolk...