Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardest-hitting fighters in the world, ranking with the United States Marines. "Toughest guys I've ever seen," he says. "While our men can 'get along' on one dinner of K Ration a day, the Aussies eat a can of Bully Beef and think it's a good meal...
Allied leaders were prepared to be stern (see U.S. AT WAR), but there was less certainty that U.S. troops would or could be as tough. Pictures in London newspapers showing hungry Germans sitting down to a meal of Army rations while Yanks stood around with pleased smiles (see cut), touched off angry comments from people who had just been through the robot blitz. (A few robombs, apparently launched from planes, still landed in & around London last week...
...York Herald Tribune's John O'Reilly reported of Paris: "This correspondent was talking to some Americans the other day who went into a restaurant, had a few drinks and a mediocre meal and when the bill came it was $100 for four persons...
...University of Illinois last week offered a cold-weather tip: eat more often, change to a fattier diet. At 20 below zero, human guinea pigs, who in an eight-hour period ate three meals high in fats and carbohydrates (starch and sugar) at two-hour intervals, had higher body temperature and better coordination than those who ate one meal rich in protein (e.g., meat...
...stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat...