Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mildly booming as a middleman for the warring nations, Italy nevertheless now pays $1.25 per gallon for gasoline. More important, the State-fixed price of bread has been raised from 7.9? to 8.1? per pound; spaghetti from 7? to 8?; olive oil from 49? to 57?per quart; sugar from14½? to 16½? per pound; butter from 42½? to 45?. Rome housewives guessed that living costs have risen 25% since break...
...Field Marshal, hoping to induce farmers to produce more and consume less, upped the price of butter 8? a pound, of milk 1? a quart and promised a bonus of $40 for every idle German acre brought under cultivation. Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours...
...shutters and capable of 25 knots. Besides fueling the Spee (the last time, five days before the battle of Punta del Este), the Altmark was fitted with prison cells in her holds. Here the Spec's captives were-perhaps still are-verminously herded, scantily fed, given only one quart of water each per day for drinking and washing. Officers are humiliated by being forced to do latrine duty. During brief hours of exercise on deck, German guards cover the prisoners with machine guns. Since mid-December the British Navy has sought the grisly Altmark, wandering somewhere on the high...
...oldest artists' clubs in the U. S. (founded 1860) is the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Since Etcher Joseph Pennell warmed his coattails in its snug, chimney-potted, red-brick clubhouse on narrow Camac Street, drinking tea by the quart and muttering against the Philistinism of his native city, the Sketch Club has seen chilly days. Few years ago its treasurer absconded, leaving it with 16? in the bank. Still intact, however, are the club's fine library, its tankard-lined rathskeller, its walls tiled with paintings and prints. Still going strong is the club's annual Christmas party...