Word: meatlessness
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...special menu has been planned for less" program to the nation as his so-Taft, who two weeks ago offered an "Eat lution to the present food crisis. It could not be learned last night whether the special bill of fare conformed with the Meatless Tuesday edict...
Durant, who had earlier made clear his desire to "play ball with the nation" on meatless Tuesdays and eggless-poultry-less Thursdays told the Council members that this program was already being followed with proper substitutions...
Just as Soapman Charles Luckman's high-powered voluntary save-food campaign was all fueled up and ready to go, Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson clomped a heavy foot on the brake. At a press conference in Chicago, tactless Clint Anderson casually dismissed meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as just "symbols of sacrifice." They were not intended "primarily to save food themselves," he said, but "to get the public in the frame of mind to conserve food." It was "like going to church on Sunday. . . . It's a reminder...
Next day, President Harry Truman did his best to undo the damage.* Breaking the rule against direct quotation during White House conferences, he said: "Meatless and eggless days are for the purpose of saving grain. . . . When you save meat and poultry products you save grain, and grain is what is necessary to meet the hunger situation in Europe...
...save grain by cutting back their flocks, who would eat the additional poultry they sent to market? If distillers and brewers cut down, what would happen to their unemployed workers? Unlucky Chuck Luckman himself pointed up another question. Turning up in Cambridge for a Chamber of Commerce dinner on meatless Tuesday, he sat down to a heaping plate of fried chicken (see cut). But what was the gain in simply swapping chicken saved on Thursday for meat saved on Tuesday...