Word: macaronies
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...Macaroni moves slowly because tomato sauce and cheese are difficult to get; pancake-mix stays on the shelf when the butter supply is tight. Jello is in demand as a substitute for canned fruits. Unrationed relishes and pickles outsell rationed catsup. Since working women have less time and inclination to bake, sales of extracts and baking powder have slumped. Dog food, originally the No. 1 U.S. seller in cans, has fallen off 50%. (Dogs do not like the dehydrated products...
...know Italian people have a habit of cooking a pound or two of macaroni. If it wasn't for that, that meal wouldn't be a meal. That costs money. The oil you have to buy and the tomato paste is something. Prices is going high. The cheese you need, the Italian cheese you need, you can't buy it, so you buy Argentina cheese, and that is very high. I think it runs to 35? a pound. So if you buy a little piece for your Sunday dinner, it costs about 15?, and I tell...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...
...Tubing, for which nylon is extruded like macaroni...
...Tonight for supper we are having hamburgers, mashed potatoes, gravy, cottage cheese, macaroni salad and fruit. . . . The thought now struck me, suppose you were sitting across the room from me. Somehow, dear lady, although we are strangers and one chance in a billion of ever meeting, yet this moment you are my neighbor...