Word: meatlessness
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...have known breadless and meatless months, but though eighty years old I never lost courage...
...nationalized Renault works hijacked a convoy of meat-laden trucks which had been seized by the Food Ministry. French railwaymen blocked gendarmes "who tried to take away ten cattle, threatened to tie up the big Villeneuve-St.-Georges freight yards with a strike. Paris entered its fourth meatless week. Alarmed by reports from the hungry Continent, two British Cabinet Ministers emplaned for Washington, where a seething row over food split the Administration...
...Despite many ration-free meats last week, Manhattan's Harvard and Union Clubs were accused by their butchers of being investigated by OPA. If guilty both faced a meatless, pointless New Year...
...rationed U.S. gawked in awe and envy. Canadians were delighted. In Parliament, Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley had guardedly answered an M.P.'s question about current Canadian meat surpluses by saying that the Government "will consider" discontinuing meat rationing and meatless Tuesdays...
...There are a couple of meatless days a week in many places and steaks are very scarce. Yet I know places in Washington where you can get steak every night. They are not black-market either. It's almost impossible to buy liquor by the bottle, but you can still get plenty by the drink. Sure, you can get milk and eggs...