Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end rumor had it that the Congress Committee, before it was through, would announce some vast campaign of protest. Mohandas Gandhi's followers often claim that his awareness of India is as sensitive as his palate, which can tell the temperature of his daily soup to within a fraction of a degree. If so, India was in a mood for protest. For that was Gandhi's mood...
Undergraduates, as occasional guests, are agreeably surprised and satisfied by the food. The members receive for lunch, which costs them 35 cents, meat, three vegetables, unlimited bread and butter, coffee and milk, and dessert. At dinner, for which the members pay 50 cents, soup and salad are added. Featuring the meals is the milk, which comes from Government Professor Carl J. Friedrich's dairy...
...firms processed most of the nation's five-million-pound annual production of dried vegetables. Now U.S. plants can produce each year 15 million pounds of dried vegetables, 285 million pounds of dried eggs, more than 170 million pounds of dry skim milk, eight million pounds of waterless soup, unmeasured amounts of citrus concentrate. There are 82 egg-drying plants, mostly in the Midwest and Southwest (in 1940 there were...
...reasons: dehydrating cuts shipping space and weight an average of 90% (12½ gallons of vegetable soup, enough for 200 soldiers, can come out of a 2-½ gallon container of dry soup mix); treated paper and cardboard containers suitable for dehydrated goods save tin, can be easily destroyed in emergency so as not to fall into enemy hands; comparatively few workers are needed in dehydration plants; if dried foods had been used in the first year of Lend-Lease shipments, the equivalent of eighty 10,000-ton ships would have been spared for other duties...
...some of whom dropped to their knees to pray (in Spanish) when they felt the wharf's solid planking underfoot. Blankets hastily pulled from village beds an hour before were wrapped around them. "Ambulances" carried them to the hotel, where they were welcomed by canteen workers with hot soup, and by 35 home nurses, a contingent of registered nurses, and four male air-raid wardens drafted as orderlies. There were dry clothes and warm beds in private rooms...