Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General MacArthur has said that "news is as necessary to the combat soldier as bread and bullets." And I can't help feeling you will be proud to learn that TIME has been the leader in every single venture undertaken by any American magazine to get accurate, impartial news from home to our troops overseas in the shortest possible time. So this week I thought you might like to see the complete record...
...They will have a weak moment and will long for peace and haven. There is hardly anyone in Germany who does not hate war, and the time when men fled from misery and hunger to the better and more exciting soldiering life is past. Peace gave us bread and honest advancement. We have no reason to love war and we don't fight with the dizzy enthusiasm shown in 1870 and 1914. We love our work and know that war is a roaring cataract between us and our future. We hate it because it steals precious years, banishes...
...circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...
...brethren work in the fields or about the monastery. Then there is another monastic office. Dinner is at 11:30. From 12 to 1:30 there is another study period, followed by two more hours of labor. Vespers comes at 4:30, and at 5:30 a meal of bread, fruit and soybean coffee...
Reported Miss Cannell: Paris, 1944 is a city of little bread and many circuses. Sixty percent of its people are underfed and ill-clothed, declining into anemia. Yet Parisian theatres are crowded; in the swank salons, well-dressed matrons applaud two new young pianists-the Paderewskis of tomorrow. The Opera is sold out half an hour after the box office opens. Couturiers put on four splashy fashion shows a year...