Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland...
...Produced 10,000,000 more gallons of milk than in the best pre-war year...
Reporting these accomplishments to the House of Commons last week, Minister Hudson might have sounded gratified. Instead, he sounded urgent. Wheat acreage must be expanded by another 600,000 acres, said he. There must be a 10% increase in the potato crop, more milk. There must be farming by moonlight to get the job done. To save ships, Britain's green earth would have to provide more food for the factory canteens, more food for Allied mess plates...
...civilians in all but heavy industry will get little or no milk, no eggs (unless they can feed their chickens exclusively on disappearing kitchen scraps), few tinned foods from the U.S., no vegetables except potatoes, cabbage and brussels sprouts. Eating in Britain will be even less fun, even more functional. The rations will be enough to keep people nourished, and no more...
Effective treatment for celiaca is skimmed lactic-acid milk and plenty of ripe bananas, and injections of pancreatic extract. But thanks to submarines, the U.S. has few bananas, and without fresh or powdered bananas celiacous children may develop the disease all over again, losing, in a few days, all the weight they have gained over a period of months...