Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Ford's two basic ideas on eating are 1) never to satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
Japanese cruelty had been mainly in deprivation and threats. Jap rationing gave every five persons a half-pound of sugar a week, each person two pounds of rice every ten days...
...smaller commodity markets traders were discouraged by the continuing lack of shipping for imports of coffee, cocoa and sugar. Arrivals of these commodities were far less than importers had hoped for. The olive trade was stirred by news that a large cargo of olives was en route...
...immediate future meats will be rationed again. So will canned goods, but not so tightly as before. Last year OPA piled up a big canned surplus-some of which the U.S. has been eating point-free this summer. This time OPA plans to market the entire pack. Sugar rationing will get no lighter, as supplies are 25% below 1941. Probably used cars will be rationed by year's end, clothes will not. Shoemen fear an end to shoe rationing...
...hero in this picture is Drive, "the best durned coon dog in southeast Missouri," who was rescued last week after having been trapped in a cave in Sugar Camp Hollow, deep in the Ozarks. The dog's owner, Jake Light (right, patting the dog) and some 25 Ozark farmers had worked for ten days, neglecting the war, their homes and their hay-mowing, as they blasted through a 30-ft limestone wall. Drive's rescue made front pages across the land. Tearful Jake wrapped Drive in an old shirt, clambered into his two-seater buggy and went home...