Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vessels, all seeking to stay out of Britain's reach. Mr. Cross stated perfectly openly: "I naturally cast a covetous eye on those vessels." He covets also some 300,000 U. S. tons now lying idle in port. He recalled that the U. S. saved Britain's bacon in 1918 not so much by fighting in France as by producing 3,033,000 tons of shipping (up from 998,000 tons in 1917) and he made clear that the sea war was the real, basic war again this time...
...most common order according to Richard Fellows '41, director of the Food sandwich. The most complicated order ever received is a sandwich which consisted of lettuce, tomato, bacon, peanut butter and mustard. The "meandering meatball" service was established by the Student Council in order to satisfy the wants of the night-owls who are not satisfied by the dining hall food...
From Latin America, NBC averages fan mail of 2,000 letters a month, CBS attracts about 1,000. Other letters come from all over the world. Broadcasting in French, Italian and German as well as Portuguese and Spanish, NBC informed Englishmen that their rations of bacon or butter were to be cut before it was known in London, tipped off listeners in Italy that Mussolini was leaving for Brenner Pass 13 hours before the trip was mentioned in Rome...
Hall's Boat: Norm Bacon, George Nichols, Bull Reece, Tony Villo, Al Anderson, Bill Shaw, Morris Gray, and Jim Ducey...
Meantime the blazing Empress, her belly billowing smoke, paint sizzling off her like strips of bacon, was taken in tow. Up slipped a German submarine and finished her off with two torpedoes...