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Wheat, which is the major item to be saved this year, can be conserved only by individual effort, Reynolds concluded. Wheatless days would be acceptable if bread remained available in the Dining Halls for dissenters; and any wheat saved could be shipped to Europe...
...that cheap food should also be clean food); 2) the quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World War I ate into its flapjack sales, and when the speakeasy era made its white-tiled, antiseptic restaurants look antediluvian to devotees of the intime hole in the wall...
...Washington was optimistic. By & large, announced the Department of Agriculture, there was little cause for alarm about food for the U.S. and United Nations-if the weather behaves, if there are enough farm workers, if transportation is available. There is no prospect now of the 1917-18 meatless, wheatless, or otherless days; the total food supply is expected to be the largest ever; plenty of wheat, fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk and cream, chicken, eggs, beef, lamb & mutton. And the United Nations have got more than 5,000,000,000 lb. of our food since April...
...possible, is salient in the public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators, war taxes have been allowed to exist for a decade, mainly through...
...ascetics who observe Mr. Hoover's regulations should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow fat, the meatlessness of the current day ought not to cut down the undergraduate avoirdupois...
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