Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden's Göteborg harbor last week 4,323 British and 17 U.S. prisoners of war, wounded beyond military usefulness, boarded transports, tasted white bread, coughed over once familiar cigarets. They were a part of the first successful prisoner exchange with the Reich; the stories they brought out were the first such accounts from inside Germany. Some of the Stories...
...Cross food parcels formed 75% of the food supply in some instances. Prison bread was black and hard. Said one repatriate: "Without parcels half of us would have been dead before...
...Prosperity Sphere. In Hsinking, Manchukuo, the Jap-controlled radio announced that "delicious bread and biscuits" could now be made of 60% flour, 40% superior Manchukuo dirt...
...urged seizure of eastern Finland and the Baltic States. When war came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness. He is a tremendously able organizer, an articulate speaker, a student of foreign affairs...
...Hitler Berlin. He spent one summer traveling all over Russia without official guide and in "hard" class railway coaches-slept out-of-doors or in peasants' cottages-saw the Soviet Union almost with the eyes of a native-told the story of his trek in a book (Black Bread and Samovars) that won him a post as Moscow correspondent. Later he was State Department reporter for the Washington Post, came to TIME from the Board of Economic Warfare where he was studying bombing objectives in Central Europe...