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...last week three budget-worried Kansas City housewives-whose husbands earn $125 to $250 a month-tested a week's menus they got from OWI. The plan called for 2½ lb. of meat for each adult, somewhat less for children: lamb roast and pie, pork chops, Swiss steak, bacon, fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report on Meat | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Ravishing beauties in Cairo's biggest air-conditioned department store stand behind counters loaded with perfumes, nylon stockings, leather goods, flashlights, cameras. Americans and Britons flock to Saint James's restaurant for thick, juicy steaks. Menus in all the best restaurants list hors d'oeuvres, fish, entrees, desserts and coffee, and most people order right down the list. Fashionables dine at the Continental Roof Garden, where Hekmet, the famed and sexy belly-dancer, excites the audience nightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: WHILE CAIRO FIDDLED | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Some departing Adams House Seniors replaced the regular dinner menus Friday with a mostly unprintable--yet printed--bill of fare with the title "DINNER, or The Colonel Says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gold Coast Seniors Produce A Menu to End All Menus | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...First essential for a company cafeteria is a well-trained dietitian. ("Very few" plants employ them.) Efficiency experts can determine the amounts of money spent in the cafeteria by each employe who lunches there; the dietitian, through shrewd marketing, can plan well-balanced menus within the price range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins in the Vittles | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Meat dishes are scratched from restaurant menus so fast that smart people lunch and dine an hour earlier than usual. To their best customers restaurateurs now say: "Would you mind eating fish today?" Fish is unrationed, but housewives can scarcely buy fish even at Black Market prices. Out of necessity more people are developing a taste for horse meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Help from the New World | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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