Word: wheatless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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