Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slightly less mutton, lamb and veal (points were raised). But the War Food Administration announced a greater allotment of lamb and mutton for civilians...
...really Keynes' Bancor system working itself out quite effectively; at least, that is the way it appears to me. For example: America supplies Australia with materiel; Australia pays back by supplying the American forces with food. Does this balance out? Not yet, as munitions cost more than mutton...
Soon there were quite a few small boats: some mere chips on the waves, with three or four rowing men, some bigger ones, holding a dozen men and driven by leg-o'-mutton sails. In the boats there were fugitives bearing weapons, water cans, cans of rations, automobile inner tubes as sea insurance. The destroyer paused and picked up the fugitives. Then she went on with her not-too-difficult job of tidying up the sea, like a lawn-keeper in a park spiking bits of blowaway paper on a stick...
With barely a glance at the weekend customers milling about the corner butcher shop, Mrs. Stanley Coultas walked into the Halliburton Cold Storage Locker Plant in Des Moines, opened her personal food locker, took out a chunk of mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful...
...Wells, popular historian of the past and of the future: "I have a profound conviction that the newspaper is as dead as mutton and that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial 'News' and shall we not listen then to a summary of what has been happening in the last two or three hours? It seems to me a much more possible and much more...