Word: barley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London said the Vichy convoy had been known to carry "important war materials destined for Germany," including a cargo of rubber from Thailand. Vichy said its ships were taking nothing but food (rice, barley, sugar, etc.) from one overseas French port to another, called the British riposte to shellfire an act of "unjustifiable aggression...
...else that has never been done before in Hanover was the announcement of a coaching staff such as that which was pulled out of the hat last night. We can already see the Harvard Crimson, from their Ivy-League Cellar, tut-tutting the choice of All-Americans Bevan and Barley, the drafting of a Cassiano from the pro ranks. For the Crimson has often seemed to operate on the principle that Ivy League football is all right so long as it isn't good football...
...Colonel Rowntree cites the hypothetical case of a 30-year-old clerk who comes from a large family, has good health but exaggerates his minor ailments, goes to bed for three or four days when he has a slight cold, may choose to subsist for days on unbleached barley and skim milk, has few friends, neither drinks, smokes nor pursues women. Colonel Rowntree says any good psychiatrist would keep such a man out of the Army...
...average worker in Germany works ten hours a day for six days a week. He makes 130 marks a month ($52), spends half of it for taxes, rent, lottery chances and the automobile he has been promised some day. He drinks beer, sometimes made out of barley or sugar beets. He worships Hitler. But last week from some where in Germany was broadcast a mes sage to the Italian people: "You have the revolutionary arms in your hands...
...runs France's richest coal belt. Lille makes textiles and chemicals. Mezieres and Valenciennes are important steel towns. France's beet-sugar industry was in the north, and the entire area, with 85 inhabitants per square kilometer (2/5 sq. mi.) was a rich farm area for corn, barley, cattle, horses. The Germans would go methodically about rehabilitating all these resources, "to make the war pay for itself...