Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...Angeles food scarcities and labor shortages forced 900 restaurants and 100 butcher shops to close. Slaughtering quotas were used up 20 days ahead of schedule. Canned-milk supply was only 50 to 75% of normal. Butter was unobtainable for many wholesale outlets. Hospitals ran short of some foods. Not a single bid was received to supply food for the 40,000 inmates of California State institutions...
...exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...
...unfortunately, was precisely the problem the old guard of the N.A.M. failed even to face. The tone was set when retiring President William P. Witherow delivered a confusing tirade against the already confused ideas of Henry J. Wallace. Cried Mr. Witherow: "I am not righting for a quart of milk for every Hottentot, or for a TVA on the Danube. ... I am not making tanks or guns to help a people's revolution ... I am making armament to help our boys save America...
...Examples: 17% more meat, 2% more milk, 26% more poultry, 32% more peanuts-but 2% less wheat, 6% less cotton...