Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangled its exports of rum and bananas, and the shipping shortage has brought the island's home economy to a new low. As 1943 began, transportation was almost at a standstill; some towns had been dark nine months because there was no oil for lamps; meat, bread, salt, rice, fish and matches were either rationed or unavailable. Economic ills weakened political or der. During a funeral procession the coffin of an unpopular public magistrate was broken to bits...
...progressively raised. . . ." The conference made public a minimum dietary standard to provide a yardstick for judging the sufficiency or insufficiency of the diets of all peoples, and translated this into an ideal American diet. The diet, for one person, for one day: Ten ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals. Slightly more than one pint of milk. A half pound of starch-rich vegetables, such as potatoes or yams...
Rehabilitation is a long step further, and is really a deceptive name for new investment. It will be one thing to give bread to the people of Warsaw to see them through the first winter of freedom and to give seed for planting and pigs for breeding stock to Polish farmers, quite another to set the Poles up in the dairy business with new barns, tractors, tank trucks, cheese factories, and all the capital paraphernalia of advanced farming. Though such investment may be worth while, it will have to compete on economic terms with the attraction of similar possible investments...
...soup has been found to be tasty. Not so tasty is boar flesh (imported from Hungary) and "Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good cheese is scarce. The greatest loss is that of coffee. Swedes like it hot, strong and often, were the world's greatest per-capita consumers before...
Mabel the mallard duck with her must in front of the Student club is undoubtedly one of the best attended mallard ducks in the countryside. Mabel not only has father duck bringing her choice edibles. . . she has a certain (jg) bringing her bread crumbs from Cowie Hall . . . Also within duck-bill length Mabel has a bowl full of water which said (jg) also religiously fills. I can't mention the (jg's) name. . . . He outranks me. . . . In fact, he is very rank at times...