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Claude Wickard looked, sniffed, tasted, grinned. The Department of Agriculture scientists watched him anxiously. On the plate they had served him were pork and beef croquettes and stew. This was the proof of a pudding three months in the making - an attempt to remove 90% of the water in pork and beef, to cut its weight 70% and its volume 65% for easier shipping to U.S. fighters and allies, and still keep the meat pleasantly edible...
Cornell took two from Dartmouth and dropped another to Columbia. A week ago the Ithacans were on the bottom of the heap and the Indians tied for second. Only Princeton has spurted out leaving the others to stew with the pack...
...present the Freshmen are seated with Johnny Pierce, cox; Schultz Wood, stroke; Bim Chanler, 7; Stew Clark, 6; Gus Merwin, 5; Bob Stone, 4; Bon White, 3; Charley Brown, 2; and Jack Potter...
...Silver Star himself), he performed one of the routine but important duties of every good commander. He inspected his men's kitchens-in this case, flyproof affairs which the troops had devised from airplane crates and wire netting. Then the General had a Sunday dinner of beef stew with fresh carrots and potatoes, cake and iced...
White Housekeepers patched up the linen, cut down old tablecloths into tray cloths and napkins. Leftovers from the White House table reappeared disguised as stew, ragout and hash. Scraps that could not be salvaged went to feed the pigs at Washington's six-acre, cooperative Self-Help Farm. White House trash had gone to the metals-salvage campaign, and a Treasury truck stopped weekly to collect old papers...