Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar food policy was setting in a realistic mold. Gone were thoughts of worldwide bread lines or an international WPA. The new principles...
...Germans were destroying and evacuating. At 8:30 a.m. the Eighth marched past shattered pillboxes into Sicily's second city, the biggest city yet taken by a British army in World War II. Bomb-weary, hungry Sicilians stepped from the ruins, with cheers of relief, and cries for bread. For General Montgomery, it was another famous victory. From Catania and Paterno the Eighth thrust columns up the west and east slopes of Mt. Etna for the cleanup in Sicily...
...mainland things are different. Spending money in large gobs is not only possible but obligatoiy. A chocolate malted milk in one of Anchorage's excellent drugstores costs 40?. Ice cream is $1 a quart. A haircut is $1.50. A shoeshine is a quarter. So is a loaf of bread or a tomato...
...experienced by those seeking escape from the rigors of radio. Also, those bars which used to hang so heavy upon your shoulders are now in front of your face. Your old uniform is exchanged for a new one. This one, you will find goes so much better with bread and water...
...incidental food, yeast is a veteran: in the Middle Ages, when young & old drank quantities of yeasty beer daily, it was almost a staple of the European diet. The U.S. people eat 200,000,000 lb. of yeast a year, most of it in bread. Fleischmann has developed two varieties now widely used in breakfast foods and as vitamin pills...