Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snakes had to be killed (to prevent their getting loose in air raids), keepers, some of whom had spent 25 years with reptiles, wept unashamed. After partial evacuation, the Zoo was reopened, but animals' hardships grew. When fish became scarce, penguins and sea lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...
...loss of 6,000 tons of chilled beef was a loss indeed for Britons. On March 11, the United Kingdom goes on a ration of 1 shilling 10 pence worth of fresh meat per adult person per week (children under 6, half that). This will mean one pound to a pound and one-half, according to the cut, including fat and bone. Normal British meat consumption is one pound and three-quarters per person per week. But liver, kidneys, tongue, sausage will not be rationed, and restaurants may sell meat meals irrespective of ration cards, but their meat supply will...
...leaves of the B. E. F. were canceled. The public was exhorted to "exercise every economy" in the use of fuel. The stores were shy of fresh meat. Water was cut off here & there. "Something" happened to the pipes at Buckingham Palace and it was said that for a whole day His Majesty King George VI had to forego a bath. London suburbanites took hours to get to & from work...
...eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat and ice cream for our luncheons. We have yet to feel...
...suffice to say that we just don't believe the crab meat caused whatever discomfort the Secretary felt. He can't prove it did and TIME fell into a groove worn too deep by repetition and blamed an old grief-catcher, the crab...