Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General MacArthur recently said "News is as necessary to the combat soldier as bread and bullets"-and today millions of young Americans in uniform are getting the newsmagazine habit and reading TIME cover-to-cover each week-to learn the news from home and to see how the fighting is going with their friends on other battlefronts all around the world...
...Available for delegates, flunkies and guards were 22,000 lb. of meat, 1,000 lb. of coffee, 17,000 lb. of bread, 78,000 eggs, 740 lb. of tea, 5,000 cans of milk, 800 lb. of turkey, 4,600 lb. of sugar, 19,000 lb. of potatoes, 5,000 cans of fruit, 1,000,000 cigarets, 3,000 cigars...
...these days. Try it when the July sun comes down upon your back with blisterin heat and the lizards are scurryin over the dead leaves ahuntin a wisp of shade on the backbone of a mountain that is steamin in the swelterin heat like a pan of bread in an oven. ... I hurried up to the grave to look down in it. It wasn't as deep as I was tall. . . . On another grave was a tattered flag, that the wind had faded until you could hardly tell what it was. Parts of it had been beaten...
...just a scientist in sadism, with a job to do. He tosses a loaf of bread into the dirt among a crowd of starving men, not for the fun of it, but in order that they shall dive for it, fight, divide and degrade themselves...
...first birthday last week came a back-pat for Editor Leonard's paper. Said Reader MacArthur: "News and informationon current events are the very breath of modern existence. To the combat soldier they are as necessary as bread and bullets...