Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accord with the demand that the University Dining Halls cut their sugar consumption in half immediately, beginning this morning one teaspoonful of sugar will be the maximum allowable for any one dish, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, announced yesterday. All sugar bowls are to be removed from the tables, and the desired sweetening will be put on in the kitchens...
...important of all, the Petain Government approved full economic collaboration with Germany. French production of planes, tanks, artillery and munitions for Germany has increased, despite sabotage by slowdown and sometimes by violence. France has shipped to Germany 14,000 head of cattle a month, huge quantities of cheese, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat, fruit, champagne and wine reserves. Some 100,000 French skilled workers have been moved to Germany...
...unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...
...children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...
Request. In a Chicago restaurant appeared a placard: "Kindly report persons who thoughtlessly put sugar bowls into their pockets...