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Home Front. In Des Moines, Kenneth Sonderleiter, proprietor of a lunch stand and a zoo, unable to get materials to build a winter house for his two lions, announced that his menus would soon offer lionburgers. In Manhattan, OPA went into action against a coal dealer whose fuel, added to any fire, managed to put it out. In Chicago, members of the Restaurant Association hopefully adopted a new plan to keep their waitresses happy-offered to send them through music school. In San Diego, OPA ordered rent reductions by a woman who had rented as living quarters her home...
After nearly a month of verbal conflict over the food situation in the civilian Houses, the Student Council has succeeded in improving the menus of the dining halls and will issue a statement on its findings following their meeting tonight...
Tucker definitely spiked the rumors to the effect that Lowell has been receiving the same food as the Navy Houses, which are fed from the same kitchen, saying that the non-rationed foods were the same but civilian point quotas were adhered to in fixing Lowells menus...
Menu on opening day, July 19, 1923: hamburger, hot dog, melted cheese sandwich, chili, tamales, hot cakes, coffee, tea, milk, near beer. This week's daily menus, 20 years later, include nine hot entrees chosen from a list of 2,700 dishes, all à la carte. Most expensive: New York cut steak, $3.25. Least expensive: hamburger, 35?. Most exotic (at $2.50): Le Coq Avin (boneless capon sautéed in butter, cognac; cooked in burgundy; served with chicken livers, truffles, mushrooms...
...partly met through almost confiscatory taxes in the higher brackets. Rationing covers everything from clothes to tennis balls and all foods except fish (which is too perishable) and fresh vegetables. Laborers doing heavy work and the children of the poor receive extra rations. All rationed items on restaurant menus require coupons...