Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...robbers prowl the dark cemeteries, stripping the dead of the clothes they no longer need. It has been a bitter winter in Greece, and there is no fuel. Some of the lucky ghouls find rings and necklaces on the corpses. With jewelry they can sometimes buy a mouthful of bread from Italian soldiers...
Come & Get It. There are no less than 39 items on the Army's ration chart. Even the iron rations of 1942 (a can of pork & beans, a can of meat and vegetable hash, a can of meat and vegetable stew, three cans of biscuit bread, enough soluble bean to make a pint of coffee, a square of chocolate candy) are a vast improvement over the "tinned willie" of World...
...Army rations were not always so sumptuous. During the Revolution, a soldier was issued daily (if he got it) 1 Ib. of meat, 6 oz. of bread, 1 pt. of milk, rice, 1 qt. of spruce beer. He had to do his cooking himself. The War of 1812 added another item to the list: vinegar, which was mixed with sugar and water to make a highly regarded tonic. In the Civil War, Union soldiers got 20 oz. of beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu...
Canada, unlike Britain and the U.S., undertook to freeze both prices and wages at the Sept. 15-Oct. 11, 1941 level. Canada had tried temporary ceilings (wool, leather, bread, butter), but when it had to earmark half its national income for war, it decided to shoot the works. Its Wartime Prices and Trade Board has full licensing power (TIME, Dec. 1), by March 15 will have licensed every food & clothing retailer in Canada (some 200,000). But WPTB shares control over supplies with the War Industries Control Board, and has yet to ration anything but sugar...
...simple. Claude Wickard, red-faced and squirming but holding his ground, explained it before the enraged Senate Agriculture Committee: no law, he said, stopped him from unloading Government stocks, at Government prices, privately, for the war needs of other Government departments. He could have his surplus wheat made into bread to feed the Army & Navy, his cotton into sheets and shirts to sleep and clothe them, his corn into alcohol for their shells. When the Senators were still skeptical (the price bill prohibits "sale or disposition" of Government-held stocks except as provided in other limiting acts), he said...