Word: veale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia stores had had next to no beef or veal in a fortnight. Food dealers preferred to mention items in ample supply: cereals, dried beans & peas, fats, turkeys. Grocery chains were rationing canned goods against hoarding...
...mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing gum, cigarets...
...Beef and veal production was up 20% in the January-April period, but the full year's output may not show as big a gain. Lamb and mutton marketings show almost no gain. Main reason: sheep are finicky creatures, and nasty weather "impaired" the spring lamb crop. Chicken-ranch owners, meanwhile, have boosted production...
...these increases would ordinarily jam-pack every butcher's showcase in the U.S., mean cheap meat for U.S. citizens. Not this year. The Government is buying 40% of all packer-processed pork, a big (but undisclosed) portion of beef and veal output. Some of this is lend-leased, but the bulk of it is gobbled up by U.S. fighting...
...Pigeons. So hungry was Venice that the thousands of pigeons in famed St. Mark's Square were almost gone. Roman first-aid centers "cured" women and children who fainted in the streets by giving them bowls of hot soup. Donkeys were slaughtered and sold as "milk-fed veal." Prize buffaloes from the Pontine Marshes turned up as "high-grade beef." Bread was scarce, fats almost nonexistent. Vegetables were being exported to Germany to pay for coal. But coal was so scarce that convalescent soldiers shivered miserably in Turin's Royal Hospital of Charity...