Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build a new life out of Axis desolation. He would use food to relieve the starving, as Herbert Hoover did in World War I. But Lehman also would use it as psychological ammunition to help win the war. To subject nations the world over would go the word that bread and meat were on the way, once the Axis yoke was cast off. His job was not to stop with victory, but to advance behind United Nations troops with blueprints for the economic reconstruction of Europe's some-day-to-be-unshackled millions. Food, clothes and shelter, Lehman knew...
After a month of Russian black-bread, a kind of Juniper tea, and English Spillers' Biscuits, Haskell got a berth on a ship in a convoy bound for home. He reached port on August...
Kitchenware. WPB banned further production of thousands of kitchen utensils after this week, including bottle openers, corkscrews, dippers, sieves, bread-boxes, jugs, dustpans, washboards, wringers. A little steel will be allowed for frying and roasting pans...
Throughout Russia an estimated 20 to 30 million civilian refugees from occupied areas squeezed into odd corners of already crowded rooms. Valenki (knee-high felt winter boots) and beds were used in rotation by people working on different shifts. Bread rations in central Russia are two pounds of black bread per day for heavy workers, one pound for children. In besieged Leningrad men get 150 grams (5 oz.) of bread a day and little else...
...other-rival tribesmen assigned to the same job drew knives. Americans howled in protest when a local government tried to tax their cigarets and food. Pan Am officials wrangled with Army control officers over how to run the line. But in spite of friction, accidents, mosquitoes and soggy, yeastless bread, the men fought hard to put the route through...