Category: Food

  • Candy Gets Tight

    Source: “Candy Gets Tight.” Business Week, 12 Dec. 1942, pp. 38”“40. https://archive.org/details/sim_business-week_1942-12-12_693/page/40/mode/2up?q=candy

  • WARTIME LIVING: 18,000,000 Gardens

    For millions of city gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled…

  • Rationing Extended to Dried Foods

    Source: “Rationing Extended to Dried Foods.” Sunday Times Signal, 21 Feb. 1943, pp. 1”“11. https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-times-signal/134972652/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-times-signal/134972782/

  • Nutrition Drive Tightens Its Belt

    Source: “Nutrition Drive Tightens Its Belt.” Business Week, 3 Apr. 1943, p. 58.

  • End Food Waste

    Source: “End Food Waste.” Business Week, 14 Aug. 1943, pp. 98”“99.

  • Margarine Push

    Source: “Margarine Push.” Business Week, 10 Oct. 1943, pp. 88”“90.

  • Kraut is Out, Oysters Are In

    Source: “Kraut Is Out, Oysters Are In.” Business Week, 23 Oct. 1943, pp. 83”“84. https://ia804502.us.archive.org/22/items/sim_business-week_1943-10-23_738/sim_business-week_1943-10-23_738.pdf

  • Exit Emily Post Dept.

    Source: “Exit Emily Post Dept.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 26 Feb. 1944, p. 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127205900/

  • Meat Rationing Ends, Except On Steak, Roasts

    Source: “Meat Rationing Ends, Except On Steak, Roasts.” The Journal Herald, 4 May 1944, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-herald/138090043/