Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five to six hundred leaves of all kinds of bread must be provided daily for the whole University by the College Bakery located under Eliot next to the College Kitchens. Here also is prepared all the plain and fancy pastries which appear on the tables in the dining halls, cookies, pies, rolls, and many fancy desserts...
...large bakery rooms is scented with the smell of warm bread, which pops and crackles invitingly in its great wire racks. Near the entrance looms a massive mixer, easily twice the height of the average man. Flour and other ingredients are sifted into a great mixing tub from a high funnel-shaped inlet and then kneaded by long-armed paddles...
...keep his home front intact, Stalin had only work and black bread to offer. He added a promise of victory in 1942 and called to his people to sacrifice collectively to preserve the things they had built collectively. Children and women foraged in the forests for wood. A ballerina canceled one performance because she was stiff from chopping wood. Production norms were increased, apartments went unheated, electricity was turned off four days a week. At year's end the Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas...
Senator Reed would solve this problem by boosting the ceiling on flour by 58? a barrel. Such a move might inflate the cost of living by adding 1? a loaf to the price of bread. A better solution would be to permit the Commodity Credit Corp. to sell part of its vast holdings of surplus wheat at less than parity. But this has been resisted by Congress. So, more likely, OPA may take the easiest way out, grant the millers a subsidy. To grain men, this would be crowning folly...
...Langers had tea for breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...