Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were not blinded when the lights went out in Europe. Some took promises of bread and let their minds and bodies be ground into the machine of the Third Reich. But there were millions of others who still remembered what it was to live in freedom. When they had a chance, they fought. When they could not fight, they waited. They knew how hungry they were, but they did not know how long they would have the strength tr fight. Yet they waited, hoping for the chance...
...riding through the streets in a dilapidated gazik [old make, small Soviet car] to a command point. We pass a gate through which roll squeaking wagons loaded with fresh bread. Evidently the building housed a bakery. The city is still alive...
...this staff-aptly self-named the "Human Guinea Pig Club"-is served the Army's strangest noon mess (every day except Sunday). They may get anything from tomato bread and soybean sausages to eleven-year-old beef. Usually the fare is good, sometimes it is gagging; but good or bad, it is never just ration spinach and to hell with it. Due to these luncheon tests and the field trials a number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper...
...discriminating eater rather than a scientist, Colonel Isker built a solid reputation in the cavalry by always feeding his men the best there was. He went to the Q.M.C. Subsistence School in 1934, later became commanding officer of the laboratory. Not all his experiments have been successful. Tomato bread, for example, was a flop...
Food Was Good. In Britain Lieut. Harold Ravson of East Orange, NJ. was commended for good baking. His bakery battalion turns out tasty, greyish-brown springy bread for soldiers. Doughnuts were harder to get because of restrictions on dried milk and cooking fats. Doughboys had to learn to like English and Scottish scones (biscuits) and oatcakes. With all the change of foods and living conditions, Americans in Britain were in good health. Chief U.S. Army Surgeon Colonel Paul Hawley said there had been only six deaths from diseases. But there were 48 from injuries on crooked English roads, where...