Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
...horses smelled the smoke of the world afire. They marched, to the rouse and stir of quickstep-music, with their fresh-faced sons, their pretty, milk-fed daughters, high-kneeing drum majorettes in boots and shorts and shakos. In Army camps all over the country were other thousands of their draft-age sons, marched and maneuvered with a deadlier purpose...
Greece and Poland suffered most. Two million Greek children will lack goats' milk this winter; a quarter of the population faces death by famine. German soldiers, moving out of private homes in which they had been billeted, took away the beds, leaving carefully made-out receipts...
Disquiet in Oslo reached a crest when 2,000 workers in the Akers shipbuilding yards went on strike. They resented Nazi plundering of milk supplies, "depriving mothers and babies" so that German soldiers in Finland could have their pint...
...ought not to withhold cotton surpluses, or any stir pluses at times like these. The housewife ought not to be made to pay a tribute . . . when she buys a cotton sheet for her home or a shirt for her husband. . . . This has been historically a land of milk and honey, but too much of it is in the warehouses. Let's make it flow...