Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-selling beverages in & around Army camps are: coffee, malted milk, milk, soft drinks. At Fort Lewis, Wash., 400.000 bottles of one soft drink were sold in one month at post dances...
Last fortnight the Negro problem suddenly boiled over. In teeming Johannesburg thousands of native milk deliverymen, meat workers, municipal laborers and food factory employes went on strike. Negro pickets attacked scabs, defiant municipal workers barricaded themselves in compounds against the police...
Thus the housewives got an inkling of a bitter truth: they were face to face with the most serious butter shortage in the history of a country that once overflowed with milk. The huge stocks of butter in storage were almost gone, and just beginning was winter, when butter production normally sinks to the lowest levels of the year...
...some of the reasons for the butter famine the homemakers were generally aware: labor shortages on farms (TIME, Nov. 23), transportation difficulties, mix-ups in the entire milk economy. The same thing had been true of sugar, meat, coffee, cheese; the same would be true, they could be sure, of a coming succession of canned, frozen and processed foodstuffs of almost all varieties...
...quietly swank Savoy-Plaza Café Lounge was last week doing the biggest business in its history as a nightspot. Its Mondays had begun to look like Saturdays. No opulent floor show was packing in the customers. The attraction was the face and the shyly sultry singing of a milk-chocolate-colored Brooklyn girl, Lena Horne...