Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-minded, non-slicing WPBers it was just a routine order: no more sliced bread for the duration, a consequent yearly saving of 100 tons of slicing-machine alloy steel. But to U.S. housewives it was almost as bad as gas rationing-and a whale of a lot more trouble. They vainly searched for grandmother's serrated bread knife, routed sleepy husbands out of bed, held dawn conferences over bakery handouts which read like a golf lesson: "Keep your head down. Keep your eye on the loaf. And don't bear down." Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices...
...Germany and satellite Finland: her iron flowed steadily and uninterruptedly into German munitions plants. And neutrality had paid. Compared with the rest of Europe, Sweden had done well. Living standards fell only 15% by 1941, then leveled off. Military expenditures increased, but not to the point of taking the bread from Swedish mouths. While Norwegians across the mountains starved and bled, Swedes worked by day and spent the cold nights in their own warm houses with their families. Per Albin could see his country's gratitude. Neutrality had been very much worth while, but how Iong could it last...
There were other things Colonel Reitz did not know. Food Minister Lord Woolton warned Britain that bread might be rationed if the public did not cooperate and eat more potatoes. Said he: "Idle nibblers of bread are nibbling at [our] very lives." A Food Ministry official estimated that the average Briton wastes three ounces daily-which means a shipload of wheat every twelve days, at a time when Allied shipping is shorter than ever...
...lose consciousness, he received small quantities of glucose in his drinking water. Most of the 61 days he spent as a free man at Gandhi's retreat near Wardha, where he has been a children's teacher and has ground grain each night for the members' bread...
...Shaw family. Robert's mother, Nell Lawson Shaw, was a well-known West Coast church singer. His older sister, Hollace, made a soprano name for herself on the General Electric Hour of Charm radio program. Robert (who was working his way through Pomona by wrapping loaves of bread in a local bakery) became leader of the Pomona College Glee Club...