Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army camps, it would be almost an overwhelming Christmas. The menus read like a meal for Gargantua. At San Antonio's mammoth cadet aviation center, incoming packages averaged 12,000 a day. In Portland, 20 carloads of parcel post, mostly for soldiers, stood idle for days while the postmaster looked for help to distribute it. To the training center at Indio, Calif, would go 300 movie belles to dance with the soldiers...
...vegetables, shortening, cheese, canned goods, to say nothing of less common delicacies, must be definitely curtailed on the menu. Expense, too, is the dietitian's dilemma. When the last inventory was concluded several months ago, most food prices were found to have doubled. Charging only forty-five cents per meal; officials are waging a losing battle to keep up the quantity and standard of the food...
...methods of preparing staple foods under trying conditions. A well balanced menu of pot rest and french fried potatoes was turned out in record time while high ranking officers watched with hungry approval. All men, however, were ushered out of the stadium without a taste of the freshly prepared meal...
Workers in heavy war industries receive ration cards for 1 Ib. 9 oz. of bread daily; monthly allotments of if 1¾b. of butter; 4 Ib. 7 oz. of meal; 1 Ib. 2 oz. of sugar; 4 Ib. 14 oz. of meat; 2 Ib. 3 oz. of fish; 14 oz. of salt; 1 oz. of tea. Those doing less heavy work, children and dependents get roughly two-thirds as much. But ration cards cannot provide food when there is none. Doctors estimate that Russians have lost an average of 15 pounds each during the past year. Although bread lines...
...Pork sausages contain mostly soybean meal...