Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gingerbread very early ceased to be a monopoly of the nobles. Even the poorest citizen of ancient Rome somehow found it within his means to proffer a spicy gift to the gods. In ancient Greece, where bread-baking was a fine art, the city of Rhodes was as famous for its gingerbread as it was for its harbor-bestriding Colossus. Part of the loot that the roving Crusaders carried home was culinary lore of the East, including the recipe for gingerbread. As spices came to be a more common property, the great mass of the people took gingerbread...
Their precious neutrality did not save the Irish from shortages such as belligerents were suffering. They lacked bread, coal and gasoline; they burned peat and prepared jaunting-cars for the near future when automobiles will dry up. But the tea shortage was considered the greatest enormity the English had inflicted on them since Cromwell sacked Drogheda...
...Daily rations 300 grams [about twelve ounces] of bread, 300 rice, 160 wheat plus potatoes, sweet potatoes, green vegetables, fish, eggs, etc. Total 3,200 calories. Meat, sugared food and, in this season, fruits are rather rare. Young and active prisoners are losing weight; old and idle prisoners gain weight...
...chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active. In Iran, the Japanese Legation was a propaganda hotbed...
...Ministry of Food forecast the early appearance of "black" bread. To cut wheat consumption by 10%, a wholemeal loaf, containing more byproducts, will be introduced...