Word: poultryless
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Luckman had already had an offer which applied more directly. It came from the nation's poultry-growers, still battling against poultryless Thursdays. In return for repeal of the ban, they promised that they would cut their poultry flocks enough to save an estimated 56 million bushels of grain...
...take Chuck Luckman long to make up his mind. It had become increasingly evident that eggless and poultryless days were pulling in opposite directions. As long as poultrymen could not sell their chickens (whose eggs were not wanted), they had simply held on to them-and fed them. Wriggling gratefully off the spot, Luckman announced that the nation could have chicken every Thursday, so long as Thursday was eggless...
...Compensation. In Marksville, La., hundreds of little fish inexplicably fell from the sky on poultryless Thursday...
Debate. Almost everyone had objections to the meatless, eggless and poultryless days. The most repeated objection was that everyone would eat poultry on meatless Tuesday and meat on poultryless Thursday and thus defeat the purpose of the program...
Terming the present food crisis "more serious than generally pictured," Zimmerman stated that meatless Tuesdays and eggless and poultryless Thursdays would accomplish little in the way of grain conservation, since most American house-holds buy their provisions days in advance of consumption...