Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President now thrives on the hardest work of his life. His early-morning routine has changed little: awake at 7:30; a quick but thorough go at the Washington and New York papers (he reads Columnists Clapper and Lippmann regularly); breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and milk; then, propped in bed in his year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems...
...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...
...skeleton walls of the dance hall lay a heap of debris. The roof had crashed upon the dancers. Fires licked over the ruins. Rescue squads fashioned a runway over plaster and planks and bodies to get out the mangled living and dead. Those who had stood at the milk-bar counter had been killed. Dead and injured sprawled in every neighboring doorway...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...
...citizens who are consuming more milk than last year, the selling of milk cows is a tragedy. With consumption 10% over a year ago, and production already down from 5 to 7%, every cow sold for meat means a wider spread between milk supply & demand. Milk may be the toughest rationing job OPA ever tackled, but it cannot be put off much longer...