Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the newspaper excitement was en, the hospital absentmindedly gave Salvatori a pass. He made a beeline for an Atlanta cafeteria, where customers and the press watched him eat seven orders of fried chicken, ten orders of French fries, nine glasses of orange juice, two quarts of milk, ten combination salads, five egg salads, two orders of olives, two glasses of iced coffee, two slices of watermelon, five orders of rolls and five slices of apple pie a la mode. Cost: $9.95. He was eating light, he said, because he had already had six candy bars and a quart...
...under the Japanese now worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics, the "crook girls" inevitably followed the troops, to ply their trade in slatternly shacks...
...soldier traded a quart of Scotch for one of the first cucumbers from a new U.S. truck farm in the Pacific. But by last week U.S. soldiers and bluejackets were harvesting more fresh vegetables than they could eat, sending the ample surplus to their fighting comrades. First of its kind in the Central Pacific, the Guam garden is part of an expanding system of island farms (already 5,000 acres) which are producing every month more than 2,000 tons of tomatoes, cabbages, peppers, corn and other truck for the armed forces...
There Van Wyck Brooks awakens early each morning, reads before breakfast, writes from 7:30 till midday, reads again in the afternoon. He uses a quart of black ink a year, has trouble getting the kind he likes. He is as nervous about starting each new book as he was about the first one. He follows no pattern in his writing, never outlines his work, does not know until he is half-finished with a book what form it is going to take. He is now halfway through the reading for the next volume of his history, which will deal...
Wallace, an unbelievably fearless man, is my idol. My feeling for the man who would see to it that every Chinese baby has a quart of milk a day comes fantastically close to hero worship. I can honestly say I love that...