Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meal a Day. Elected President in 1941, Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before...
Food ran low; the Erma's passengers ate but one meal a day. To cook it, one woman held a Primus stove down on the deck, a second held a pan to the flame. Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire. Day after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles...
...Recipe:1) steamed- 1 quart of yellow corn meal, i quart of milk, 6 eggs, 1 pound of chopped suet, % pint of molasses, a little cinnamon (serves ten); 2) baked- 2 quarts of milk, 3 gills of corn meal, 1 pint of molasses, % pound of suet, 2 tablespoonfuls of ginger...
...Commons' kitchen committee faced facts. Many a Laborite M.P.-and some Tories, too-must live on a parliamentary salary of $2,400 a year, cannot afford to eat on the premises. Last week the committee set up a poor man's canteen. It featured a hot meal (soup, lamb or beef with potatoes, cabbage, apple pie) for 30?; tipping was banned. At that rate no member of the "world's best club" would have to bring his own lunch...
...cooperation of the Army, will supply housing & travel facilities, at nominal rates, for essential travelers in Europe. As a start, the State Department turned over Paris' small, comfortable Hotel California to 'civilians. There businessmen-trippers will be housed for $4-$11 a day; will be served meals for $2.75 a day, thus dodge the fantastic restaurant prices (cost of a good meal...