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...right off the bat Food Boss Wickard called the croquettes excellent, the stew very good, ordered the scientists back to their laboratories to do the same for mutton & lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Condensed Meat | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...there are enough farm workers, if transportation is available. There is no prospect now of the 1917-18 meatless, wheatless, or otherless days; the total food supply is expected to be the largest ever; plenty of wheat, fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk and cream, chicken, eggs, beef, lamb & mutton. And the United Nations have got more than 5,000,000,000 lb. of our food since April 1941, at a paper cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: New Worries | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...many passenger buses are being discontinued. After a generation of disuse, sailing-boat transports sail again. Dublin streets swarm with hundreds of awkward, new bicycle riders, and Dubliners who own autos have hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage threatened a bread famine by midsummer, but a 7,000-ton shipment from Canada brought some relief. Worse still, there's devilish little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Time Marches Back | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...last week in a new home at Middlebury, Vt., where they are now beginning the third chapter of their careers, in the care of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Though they do not have golden fleece, they may be almost as valuable to U.S. farmers, wool-wearers and mutton-eaters. Their unique characteristics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Alexander Bell's Sheep | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prisoners & Fugitives | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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