Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flagpole. On one of the islands, in front of the long, white Colonial clubhouse, the picnicking and politicking began at once. On the greensward facing a shallow bay was a long tent-at one end a beer and bourbon bar, at the other end a food bar (crabmeat, ham, potato salad and a barrel of oysters). Harry Truman, glass in hand, sat under a flagpole and chatted, called out many a first name...
...would replace Lend-Lease? There was still no firm policy, but Leo Crowley's FEA experts had long considered plans for long-term loans and mutual-assistance credits. In some cases loans might be made without interest. Whatever the name or method of bookkeeping, it was another hot potato for the Truman administration to handle-and Congress was certain to raise more Santa Claus objections...
...Everything possible will be done to alleviate the "foodstuff, clothing and housing" situation. But the nation must be ready for "anguish . . . suffering ... life of stoicism." (The Welfare Ministry launched a drive to popularize a new bread made of "waste starch, acorns, pigweed, clover leaves, potato vines...
armed with spray guns and nicotine sul phate, sallied into the tomato and potato fields. Last week, thanks to their deter mined attack and the arrival of hot weather, it looked as if Ohio and its neighboring states had succeeded in repelling the worst invasion of aphids since...
...feared a bread shortage as thousands of evacuees returned to London. One bakery with twelve ovens, normally producing 35,000 loaves daily, now produces only 12,000. Fish catches are enormous, but the labor shortage is making the handling of the catches very difficult. Late frosts have delayed new potatoes. Manchester, which usually consumes 1,500 tons of potatoes daily, got none one day last week. Liverpool is using its last potato reserves. When the food cuts were announced, Britons were promised more corned meats with a controlled price of 36?. The first muscat grapes appeared last week at about...