Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cretans are a patient lot. Since 1941 they have bided their time. They have suffered hardships, intenser than the hardships suffered on the Greek mainland because Crete never was self-sufficient. The Gemans have been constantly robbing the people of their porridge, bread and olives. After taking their "official tithe," they come roving around in small bands, forcing villagers and townsmen to give up more at pistol point. The stuff they steal or wangle from the Cretans is not enough, so that on occasion you get German soldiers, and even officers, entering homes and begging for scraps of food...
...Nazis have been taking all able-bodied men between 16 and 60 years of age, forcing them to work on the island's defenses, building roads, rolling airfields, making concrete breastworks and pillboxes. The pay is poor, amounting to about two pounds of bread for nine days' work...
...that the island's farms could get their products (wheat now being harvested, tomatoes and olives, lemons, oranges and grapes) to the cities. Carefully it doled out, where necessary, Allied food stocks. Its reputation flew ahead. In many a liberated town the first question asked by black-bread eaters was: "Where is the white bread...
Will There Be Expediency? Many an Italian wanted more than white bread from the liberators. In a letter to AMGOT an unnamed citizen of Ferla denounced the mayor, who was cooperating with the Allies yet continuing to run the town in the "corrupt Fascist tradition." The writer touched on AMGOT's biggest and toughest problem: the replacement of Fascists in a land where practically every officeholder owed allegiance to the Party...
...most valuable researches were still Steenbock's. His ultraviolet-lamp irradiation process was sold to 250 companies for enriching milk, bread, animal feed, drugs, many another edible. (The conscientious Foundation refused to let chewing gum be irradiated, on the ground that it would do gum-chewers no good...