Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina long trains of grey stock cars are chuffing into the terminals, loaded with beef and mutton from the brown seared grasslands of the pampas, stocking up meat faster than the British ships along the wharves can take it away. Eight million tons of wheat and 3,000,000 tons of linseed cram the new elevators of Buenos Aires, Puerto Nuevo, Rosario. The warehouses are filled with hides and wool. There they say what they want after the war: something better for the plain people of the world. Better education, more books, social justice, freedom to come and go, more...
...meat on Britain's account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments of beef, lamb and mutton by about eight million...
Once a week Nat Gubbins speaks for the British man-in-the-street better than the British man-in-the-street can speak for himself. Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel. His column, "Sitting On The Fence," is a kind-of literary comic strip, in which various permanent characters comment obliquely or directly on the affairs...
...Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...cans. There is no food obtainable in New Guinea beyond a few paw paws, bananas and coconuts. Supply officers still laugh grimly over the suggestion from headquarters that they supplement rations by buying in the open market. The food problem is aggravated because the soldiers won't eat mutton. "These boys simply won't touch sheep," says the exasperated mess officer who watches supplies of mutton pile...