Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which rests the entire agricultural economy. Better than 60% of all cultivated U.S. farm land is planted to grains, most of which are fed to livestock and thus converted into meat and dairy products. Without grain there can be no hogs, no prime beef, ho poultry or eggs, no bread, and much less milk...
...even if the nation is lucky and reaps a bountiful harvest-for the eighth successive season-the grain traders argue that there will not be enough grain for all needs. Livestock numbers, they say, must be reduced 20 to 30% if the U.S. is to have bread for its citizens, corn for its war industries* and wheat for industrial alcohol. When livestock numbers are reduced, the U.S. will tighten its belt...
...lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct of an irresolute career diplomat, his retired liberal of a father-in-law, his bored wife who broke bread with fascist-minded bigwigs...
...unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under the onset of the Nazi conquests the walls of the whole known world were tottering. They had been thick with scribbled warnings. The Nazis were the terrible evidence that though men cannot live by bread alone, permanent hunger (for bread, for work, for hope) starves the human spirit into permanent inhumanity...
...Only five of the State's 20 institutions have trained dietitians. One institution which had plenty of eggs customarily gave patients only bread and coffee at breakfast. In most of these institutions potatoes are usually the only vegetables served...